Sherwood number
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The Sherwood number (Sh) is a dimensionless number used in mass-transfer operation. It represents the ratio of lengthscale to the diffusive boundary layer thickness, and is named in honor of Thomas Kilgore Sherwood.
It is defined as follows
It is the mass-transfer equivalent of the Nusselt number where
- Kc = overall mass transfer coefficient;
- L = characteristic length;
= component diffusion coefficient
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