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significance, but first you should know about the nomenclature used.
Nomenclature:
= Density of the fluid
u= Velocity of the fluid
D= Diameter of pipe
= Viscosity of the fluid
v= Momentum Diffusivity / Velocity
= Heat Diffusivity
DAB= Mass Diffusivity
cp=Specific Heat Capacity at a constant pressure
k= Thermal Conductivity of the fluid
Lch=Characteristic Length
Vch=Characteristic Velocity
h=Heat Transfer Coefficient
K=Mass Transfer Coefficient
f=Mass Transfer Coefficient
=Volumetric Thermal Expansion
1. Reynolds Number:
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2. Prandtl Number:
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3. Schmidt Number:
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4. Lewis Number
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6. Stanton Number
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For HT, It is the ratio of heat transferred to the fluid to the heat capacity of the fluid.
For HT, Its the ratio of Nusselt Number to Peclet Number i.e St(HT) = Nu/(Re.Pr).
Used to find heat transfer in forced convection flows.
For MT, Its the ratio of Sherwood Number to Peclet Number i.e St(MT) = Sh/(Re.Sc).
Significance:
A) Sherwood Number:
Ratio of Convective to diffusive mass transport.
Analogous of Nusselt number in Heat transfer OR Sherwood number is Nusselt number
for mass transfer.
B) Nusselt Number
Ratio of convective to conductive heat transfer coefficient across the boundary layer.
Low Nu => conduction is more => Laminar flow
High Nu => convection is more => Turbulent flow.
It can also be viewed as conduction resistance to convection resistance of the material.
Free convection: Nu = f(Ra, Pr)
Forced Convection: Nu = f(Re, Pr)
8. Grashof Number
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9. Biot Number
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First seven number are very important and must be known by every chemical engineer in detail as
they can be asked in any test/exam of their field. List of dimensionless numbers is quite long, if
you want us to include some more in this list then let us know via comments.