CBE 30355 - Lecture Notes - Oct. 9, 2018
Announcements
Class notes
Scanned Notes
The main points of the lecture were
Goals:
After this class you should be able to:
- Use dimensional analysis to determine the number of dimensionless groups involved in a problem.
Reading
- The class notes.
- BS&L, chapter 3
Additional Readings:
In class we talked about the example of estimating the yield of a point explosion
through dimensional analysis, solved for early atom bomb tests by G.I. Taylor. A nice
discussion of his result is provided
here and
the complete paper (publication of which caused a bit of a stir, as the yield was still classified at
the time) can be found here.
It's a good illustration of the power of dimensional analysis to solve complicated problems.
Demonstration:
Stokes Flow Reversibility
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