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Dimensional Analysis -II Governing Equations & B.C.

Normalization of governing equations and B.C. also yield the dimensionless parameters. Consider a projectile motion let

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and

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and

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and

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Then the governing equations

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the following dimnesionless numbers arrive from the equations

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Fr is the Froud Number

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Re is the Reynolds Number

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Pr is the Prandtl Number

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Ec is the Eckert Number.


Yousef Haik
Sun Sep 1 16:31:13 EDT 1996