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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: Knudsen number
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Symbol: Kn
Definition: quantity of dimension 1 determining whether a fluid should be described by statistical mechanics or continuum mechanics, defined by the ratio of the mean free path λ of molecules to a length l representative of the phenomenon, thus Kn = λ / l


Publication date:2011-04
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