Péclet number
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Péclet number
A nondimensional number arising in problems of heat transfer in fluids.
It is the ratio of heat advection to heat diffusion and may be written where U is a characteristic velocity, L a characteristic length, and K the thermometric conductivity. Also, the product of the Reynolds number and Prandtl number.
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