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The Sherwood number (Sh) (also called the mass transfer Nusselt number) is a dimensionless number used in mass-transfer operation. It represents the ratio of the total mass transfer rate (convection + diffusion) to the rate of diffusive mass transport, [1] and is named in honor of Thomas Kilgore Sherwood.
Mass transfer is the net movement of ... Sherwood numbers, and ... At higher Reynolds number, the analogy between mass and heat transfer and momentum transfer becomes ...
The same restrictions described in the heat transfer definition are applied to the mass transfer definition. The Sherwood number can be used to find an overall mass transfer coefficient and applied to Fick's law of diffusion to find concentration profiles and mass transfer fluxes.
Dimensionless numbers (or characteristic numbers) have an important role in analyzing the behavior of fluids and their flow as well as in other transport phenomena. [1] They include the Reynolds and the Mach numbers, which describe as ratios the relative magnitude of fluid and physical system characteristics, such as density, viscosity, speed of sound, and flow speed.
Meanwhile, for mass transfer, the comparison is between viscous diffusivity and mass Diffusivity (), given by the Schmidt number. In some cases direct analytic solutions can be found from these equations for the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers.
A larger Nusselt number corresponds to more active convection, with turbulent flow typically in the 100–1000 range. [2] A similar non-dimensional property is the Biot number, which concerns thermal conductivity for a solid body rather than a fluid. The mass transfer analogue of the Nusselt number is the Sherwood number.
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mass transfer (advection– ... Sherwood number: Sh = mass transfer (forced convection; ratio of convective to diffusive mass transport) Sommerfeld number: S = () ...