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This is a list of well-known dimensionless quantities illustrating their variety of forms and applications. The tables also include pure numbers, dimensionless ratios, or dimensionless physical constants; these topics are discussed in the article.
Dimensionless quantities, or quantities of dimension one, [1] are quantities implicitly defined in a manner that prevents their aggregation into units of measurement. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Typically expressed as ratios that align with another system, these quantities do not necessitate explicitly defined units .
Dimensionless quantities, or quantities of dimension one, [2] are quantities implicitly defined in a manner that prevents their aggregation into units of measurement. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Typically expressed as ratios that align with another system, these quantities do not necessitate explicitly defined units .
Choose judiciously the definition of the characteristic unit for each variable so that the coefficients of as many terms as possible become 1; Rewrite the system of equations in terms of their new dimensionless quantities. The last three steps are usually specific to the problem where nondimensionalization is applied.
Note that the notations in the "SI units" column above are for the most part dimensionless quantities; that is, the units of measurement factor out in expressions like "1 nm/m" (1 nm/m =1 × 10 −9) so the ratios are pure-number coefficients with values less than 1.
Since the resulting equations need to be dimensionless, a suitable combination of parameters and constants of the equations and flow (domain) characteristics have to be found. As a result of this combination, the number of parameters to be analyzed is reduced and the results may be obtained in terms of the scaled variables.
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