Dimensional analysis, scaling, and orders of magnitude

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 4681-4698

  Astarita, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensional analysis; Orders of magnitude; Scaling

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING;

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; SCALING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031553393     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)85420-6     Document Type: Article

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