Table of Dimensionless Numbers Group [Definition Interpretation | Archimedes Number (Ar) | gi? Ratio of gravitational force to viscous am force # ‘Arthenius Number (@) E, Ratio of activation energy to thermal RE onergy Bingham Number (Bm) tL Ratio of yield stress to viscous sires Wy [Biot Number (Bi) AL Ratio of the intemal thermal ie resistance of a solid to the boundary layer thermal resistance Mass Transfer Biot Number |, Ratio of the internal species transfer Bin) resistance to the boundary layer species transfer resistance i Blake Number (BI) Vp Ratio of inertial force to viscous fores W-as in flow through beds of solids Bodenstein Number (Bs) vL ‘Mass transfer number used in reactor _| D calculations with velocity, length, and a axial diffusivity ‘Bond Number (Bo) Ratio of gravitational and surface tension forces ‘Brinkman Number (Br) Ratio of viscous dissipation to thermal conduction Capillary Number (Ca) Ratio of viscous foree to surface tension force ‘Cauchy Number (C) Ratio of inertial force to | compressibility force (modulus) Cavitation Number (oc) Ratio of excess local static pressure head to velocity head 7 Pvetficient of Frication (Cj) Dimensionless surface shear stress ‘Condensation Number (Coy Used in condensation calculations EP AH ay? { AuaT ‘Dean Number (De) Bt Reynolds number times the Re 4) centrifugal force over the inertial \2R) | fore | Drag Coefficient (Ca) glp—p,)e Ratio of gravitational force to inertial cae force used in free settling velocities and résistance to flow rea Ro “post dba, & ~ giftusenal 6 retshetEckert Number (Eo) Kinetic energy of the flow relative to the boundary layer enthalpy difference Elasticity Number (El) oe Ratio of elastic force to inertial foree DR in viscoelastic flow Btovos Number (Eo) (b-0, Ve Ratio of gravitational force to surface ae force; equivalent to Bo Euler Number (Eu) Ratio of pressure foree to inertial oF force wrens ‘Number (Fo) at ‘Ratio of the heat conduction rate to E the rate of thermal energy storage in a solid. Dimensionless time. ‘Mass Transfer Fourier Di Ratio of the species diffusion rate to Number (For) PE the rate of species storage. Dimensionless time. “Etiction Factor (f) Dimensionless pressure drop for internal flow Froude Number (Fr) ¥ Ratio of inertial force to gravitational a force Galileo Number (Ga) ‘Dp Reynolds number times the 3 gravitational force over the viscous . force Gratz Number (Gz) Ratio of the thermal capacity to convective heat transfer Grashof Number (Gr) Ratio of buoyancy to viscous forces Colburn j factor Ga) ‘Dimensionless heat transfer coefficient \S Colburn j factor (in) ‘Dimensionless mass transfer coefficient | Hodgson Number (H) “Time constant of the system over the period of pulsation (fis frequency, Q is volumetric flow ratc) Jakob Number (Ja) Ratio of sensible to latent energy absorbed during liquid-vapor phase change Knudsen Number (Kn) Length of mean free path relative to characteristic length of system Tewis Number Ratio of thermal and mass diffusivities ‘Mach Number (M) Velocity divided by the speed of soundjusselt Number (Nu) Dimensionless temperature gradient YY at the surface ‘Ohnesorge Number (Z) Ratio of the viscous force to the square root of the produet of inertial and surface forces \\ 7) Peciet Number (Pa) Dimensionless independent heat transfer parameter ‘Mass Transfer Peclet VL ~~ | Dimensionless independent mass Number Pen) D transfer parameter Pipeline Parameter (p") ay, Maximum water hammer pressure 2gh rise over twice the static pressure (h is the static head, ais the wave velocity) Power Number (N,) P Ratio of drag force to inertial foree war for power consumption calculations ces (Nis rate of rotation, P is power) _ \ oJ Prandtl Number (Pr) v Ratio of the momentum and thermal om diffusivities ~ Z Rayleigh Number (Ra) GrPr ‘Used in heat transfer and free convection calculations \vUf Reynolds Number (Re) wp | Ratio of the inertial and viscous rae forces \\ 67 Schmidt Number (Se) ¥ | Ratio of the momentum and mass * D diffusivities “hy | Sevood ember SYA, Dimensionless concentration gradient J D> | at the surface | Stanton Namber 0) ae Modified Nusselt number seas Prey {Mass Transfer Stanton’ hy ‘Modified Sherwood number Number (Stn) apt Strouhal Number (Sr) fi Proportional to reciprocal of vortex a spacing (Fis frequency) ‘Weber Number (We) pL Ratio of inertia to surface tension forces