During World War II, Sir Geoffrey Taylor, a British fluid dynamicist, used dimensional analysis to estimate the energy released by an atomic bomb explosion. He assumed that the energy released E, was a function of blast wave radius R, air density ρ, and time t. Arrange these variables into single dimensionless group, which we may term the blast wave number.

During World War II, Sir Geoffrey Taylor, a British fluid dynamicist, used dimensional analysis to estimate the energy released by an atomic bomb explosion. He assumed that the energy released E, was a function of blast wave radius R, air density ρ, and time t. Arrange these variables into single dimensionless group, which we may term the blast wave number.

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Chapter5: Analysis Of Convection Heat Transfer

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