Compatibility and mutual interaction among the dimensionless groups present in the Navier-Stokes and energy differential equations
Abstract
A method is proposed for obtaining a compatibility relationship among the Prandtl, Reynolds, Grashof and Eckert numbers, present in the transport differential equations for heat and momentum. This method enables one to calculate consistent multipliers for all terms in the aforesaid equations without reference to any physical system. The analysis reveals that natural convection and viscous dissipation cannot simultaneously affect solutions to transport equations with an equal and high intensity.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
- Pub Date:
- September 1980
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1980IJHMT..23.1243B
- Keywords:
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- Boltzmann Transport Equation;
- Differential Equations;
- Free Convection;
- Heat Transfer;
- Momentum Transfer;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Compatibility;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Incompressible Flow;
- Newtonian Fluids;
- Viscous Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer