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Archimedes number
Atwood number
Bejan number(fluid mechanics)
Bingham number
Blake number
Bond number
Brinkman number
BrownellKatz number
Capillary number
Darcy friction factor
Deborah number
Symbol
Ar
A
Be
Bm
Bl or B
Bo
Br
NBK
Ca
Cf or fD
De
Eckert number
Ec
Eotvos number
Euler number (physics)
Eo
Eu
r
f
Fo
Fr
Galilei number
Graetz number
Grashof number
KeuleganCarpenter number
Knudsen number
Laplace number
Ga
Gz
Gr
KC
Kn
La
LockhartMartinelli parameter
n
Mg
Morton number
Mo
Definition
gL3
` (` )
Ar =
2
2
A = 11
+2
L2
Be = P
y L
Bm = V
u
B = (1)D
aL2
U 2
Br = (Tw T0 )
NBK = ku
rw
Ca = V
Bo =
tc
tp
2
Ec = cpVT
2
Eo = g L
p
Eu = V
2
cp (T Te )
r = U 2 /2
e
De =
Fo = Lt2
Fr = vg`
Ga = gL2
Gz = DLH Re Pr
3
)L
GrL = g(Ts T
2
KC = VLT
Kn = L
La = L
2
q
m`
= mg g`
d LT
Mg = dT
Mo =
g4c
2c 3
Field of application
fluid
fluid
fluid
fluid
fluid
geology, fluid mechanics, porous media (buoyant versus capilary forces, similar to Eo)
heat transfer, fluid mechanics (Thermal conduction from a wall to a viscous fluid)
fluid mechanics (combination of capillary number and Bond number)
porous media (viscous forces versus surface tension)
fluid mechanics (fraction of pressure losses due to friction in a pipe; 4 Fanning)
rheology (viscoelastic fluids)
convective heat transfer (ratio of kinetic energy to enthalpy)
fluid mechanics (shape of Liquid bubbles or drops)
hydrodynamics (stream pressure versus inertia forces)
heat transfer, fluid dynamics (change in internal energy versus kinetic energy)
fluid mechanics (fraction of pressure losses due to friction in a pipe; 1/4 Darcy )
heat transfer, mass transfer (ratio of diffusive rate versus storage rate)
fluid mechanics (wave and surface behaviour; ratio of a bodys inertia to gravitational forces)
fluid mechanics (gravitational over viscous forces)
heat transfer, fluid mechanics (laminar flow through a conduit; also used in mass transfer)
heat transfer, natural convection (ratio of the buoyancy to viscous force)
fluid dynamics (ratio of drag force to inertia for a bluff object in oscillatory fluid flow)
gas dynamics (ratio of the molecular mean free path length to a physical length scale)
fluid dynamics ( ratio of surface tension to momentum-transport)
two-phase flow (flow of wet gases; liquid fraction)
open channel flow (flow driven by gravity)
fluid mechanics (Marangoni flow; thermal surface tension forces over viscous forces)
fluid dynamics (determination of bubble/drop shape)
continued . . .
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Number
Symbol
Definition
Nu = hd
k
=
Oh = L
Field of application
Nusselt number
Ohnesorge number
Nu
Oh
Peclet number
Prandtl number
Rayleigh number
Relative permeability
Relative permittivity
Reynolds number
Richardson number
Roshko number
Schmidt number
Sherwood number
Sommerfeld number
Stanton number
Pe
Pr
Ra
r
r
Re
Ri
Ro
Sc
Sh
S
St
Pe = k p = Re Pr
c
Pr = = pk
g
Rax =
(Ts T )x3
r = 0
x
r = C
C0
vL
Re =
Ri = gh
= Fr12
u2
2
Ro = f L
= St Re
Sc = D
KL
Sh = D
2
S = rc N
P
St = cphV = ReNuPr
Stefan number
Stokes number
Strouhal number
Taylor number
Ste
Stk or Sk
St or Sr
Ta
Wallis parameter
Ste = pL
Stk = dUco
St = L
v
2 4
Ta = 4 2R
1
2
j = R
Weber number
Weissenberg number
We
Wi
We
Re
duc
c T
v 2 l
We =
Wi =