#dimensionless numbers

[maklodes]

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.)

[dailygeekism]

Negligible Mach number, you say? Don't mind if I do.

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[dailygeekism]

Everything has an Eckert number. I have an Eckert number. It's zero.

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