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Mechanical Engineering · Q154

Heat And Mass Transfer

Engineering and GATE · Mechanical Engineering · question 154

Q154

The ratio of Nusselt number and the product of Reynold's number and Prandtl number is equal to

A.
Stanton number
Answer
B.
Biot number
C.
Peclet number
D.
Grashoff number

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
The ratio of Nusselt number and the product of Reynold's number and Prandtl number is equal to Stanton number The Stanton number is a dimensionless number that measures the ratio of heat transferred into a fluid to the thermal capacity of fluid.