What is Prandtl number?
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 Published On Mar 15, 2022

Ludwig Prandtl was a physicist who introduced a dimensionless fluid property in convective heat transfer, which is the so-called Prandtl number. It is defined as the ratio of the momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity,

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00:00 Motivation
00:24 Introduction and definition
02:59 Physical definitions
06:53 Summary
08:19 References

Key words: Heat transfer, fluid mechanics, convection, momentum diffusivity, dimensionless number, thermal diffusivity, boundary layer thickness

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