Mass Transfer in Turbulent Flow Dimensional Analysis and the Buckingham n Theorem

3 Mass Transfer in Turbulent Flow Dimensional Analysis and the Buckingham n Theorem 

Both heat and mass transfer in turbulent flow are generally not amenable to analytical treatment. It is customary in these cases to resort to what is termed dimensional analysis. This device consists of grouping the pertinent physical parameters of the system into a number of dimensionless groups, thus reducing the number of variables that must be dealt with, and evaluating the undetermined coefficients experimentally. It is a powerful tool for arriving at a first qualitative description of complex systems and eases enormously the experimental work required to quantify the relationship. 

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