I hope that the whole “decolonize science” / “stop honoring dead white males” thing leads to all of the confusing dimensionless numbers in fluid dynamics getting more meaningful names. How am I supposed to remember all that nonsense like “Prandtl number,” “Nusselt number,” “Rayleigh number,” etc? (Reynolds number, I can pretty much remember, but I wouldn’t mind renaming that one to something like “turbulence index” or whatever anyway.)







