Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hydrostatics
- 3 Outline of Continuum Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
- 4 Conservation and Dynamics in Fluids
- 5 Bernoulli’s Equation, Vorticity and Inviscid Flow
- 6 Mass Transfer in Fluids – Chemical and Materials Processing
- 7 Diffusion in the Solid State
- 8 Heat Transfer
- 9 Dimensional Analysis
- Index
9 - Dimensional Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hydrostatics
- 3 Outline of Continuum Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
- 4 Conservation and Dynamics in Fluids
- 5 Bernoulli’s Equation, Vorticity and Inviscid Flow
- 6 Mass Transfer in Fluids – Chemical and Materials Processing
- 7 Diffusion in the Solid State
- 8 Heat Transfer
- 9 Dimensional Analysis
- Index
Summary
The powerful methods of dimensional analysis are introduced via the pi-theorem. The reader discovers that many of the results obtained in Chapters 3 and 4 can be arrived at using dimensional analysis alone. These include drag and pipe flow. Dynamical similarity is explained.
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- Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena , pp. 253 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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