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There are infinitely many dimensionless quantities and they are often called numbers. Some of
those that are used most often have been given names, as in the following list of examples
(alphabetical order):
Standard
Name Field of application
Symbol
Bagnold number Ba flow of bulk solids such as grain and sand. [5]
Coefficient of static
s friction of solid bodies at rest
friction
Coefficient of kinetic
k friction of solid bodies in translational motion
friction
Courant-Friedrich-
numerical solutions of hyperbolic PDEs[7]
Levy number
Fopplvon Karman
thin-shell buckling
number
Kt/V medicine
Lockhart-Martinelli
flow of wet gases [11]
parameter
ratio of a resistive time to an Alfvn wave crossing
Lundquist number S
time in a plasma
Magnetic Reynolds
Rm magnetohydrodynamics
number