Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Symbols
Dimensionless Groups
DF
angular displacement
3
characteristic energy (Sections
2.1.1 and 2.2.3)
Bo
Bond number
Ca
Capillary number
3
dielectric constant
Da
Damk¨hler number
k
curvature (Section 2.4.2.3)
De
Dean number
l
Lyapunov exponent (Section
6.4.2)
El
elasticity number
Fo
Fourier number
l
geometry parameter (Section
2.4.2.3)
Kn
Knudsen number
Le
Lewis number
l
mean free path
Pe
Peclet number
l
optical wavelength (Chapters 4
and 8)
Pr
Prandtl number
Ra
Rayleigh number
l
D
Debye length
Re
Reynolds number
h
efficiency
Sc
Schmidt number
m
dynamic viscosity
We
Weber number
n
kinematic viscosity
Wi
Weissenberg number
F
dissipation function
r
density
Greek Symbols
J
electric potential
a
flow rate ratio (Section 5.3)
j
stream function
a
th
thermal expansion coefficient
s
characteristic diameter of
a molecule (Section 2.1.1)
a
,
b
geometry parameters (Section
5.5)
s
characteristic time
a
,
b
switching ratio and focusing
ratio (Section 5.5.3)
q
angle, azimuthal angle
q
relative temperature (Section
6.4.1.3)
b
friction coefficient (Section
2.2.2)
q
variable used in Fourier series
(Sections 2.1.2.2 and 5.5.2)
b
thermal expansion coefficient
b
viscosity ratio (Section 2.1.2.2)
r
el
charge density
g
shear rate
s
area density (Section 7.7.1)
_
g
flow rate ratio
s
surface tension, interfacial
tension
d
Dirac function
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