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Given: Functional relationship between wall shear stress in a boundary layer and physical parameters
Find: Appropriate dimensionless parameters
Solution: We will use the Buckingham pi-theorem.
1 w x U n = 5 parameters
3 w x U
M L M M L
r = 3 dimensions
Lt 2 L3 Lt t
4 x U m = r = 3 repeating parameters
a c
a b c M M Lb L M0 L0 t0
Π1 τw ρ x U Thus:
2 3 t
L t L
Summing exponents:
F L t 1
4 2
Check using F, L, t dimensions:
2 2 L
L F t
a c
a b c M M Lb L M0 L0 t0
Π2 μ ρ x U Thus: L t 3 t
L
Summing exponents:
t: 1 c 0
F t L 1 t 1
4 2
2 2 L L
Check using F, L, t dimensions: The functional relationship is:
L F t Π1 f Π2