Bagnold number
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Ralph Bagnold.
Noun[edit]
Bagnold number (plural Bagnold numbers)
- (physics, uncommon) The ratio of grain collision stresses to viscous fluid stresses in a granular flow with interstitial Newtonian fluid: , where is the particle density, is the grain diameter, is the shear rate, is the dynamic viscosity of the interstitial fluid and is the linear concentration.
Further reading[edit]
- Bagnold number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia