Dimensionless Groups
Ratio between inertial and viscous forces.
What is the Reynolds Number?
This process has won two Nobel Prizes: first for the development at laboratory scale, then again 13 years later for development at an industrial-scale.
What is the Haber-Bosch Process?
This parameter is denoted by the character for alpha.
What is thermal diffusivity?
It states that the entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature reaches absolute zero.
What is the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
Undergrad at University of Michigan; MS and PhD at University of Illinois; Postdoc at MIT.
Who is Prof. Danielle Mai?
Ratio of momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity.
What is the Prandtl number?
Francis Arnold in 2018 for this process.
What is Directed Evolution?
This is the Gibbs free energy equation.
What is G = H - TS?
This law states that the shear stress is directly proportional to the velocity gradient.
What is Newton's Law of Viscosity?
Undergrad at Stanford; MS and PhD at Berkeley.
Who is Prof. Will Tarpeh?
The ratio of heat transfer resistance inside the body to heat transfer resistance at the surface of the body OR internal resistance to external thermal resistance
What is the Biot number?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier in 2020 for this technology.
What is CRISPR?
The four Carnot cycle stages.
What are Isothermal expansion, Adiabatic expansion, Isothermal compression, Adiabatic compression?
It states that the partial pressure of each component of an ideal mixture of liquids is equal to the vapor pressure of the pure component (liquid or solid) multiplied by its mole fraction in the mixture.
What is Raolt’s Law?
MS and PhD at University of Chicago, both in Chemistry.
Who is Prof. Zhenan Bao?
The ratio of convective to conductive heat transfer across a boundary layer.
What is the Nusselt Number?
Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless in 2022 for the development of this.
What is "click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"?
Condition when a boiling liquid mixture produces a vapor of exactly the same composition as it evaporates.
What is tan azeotrope?
Law that states volume of a gas mix is the sum of pure component volumes.
What is Amagat's Law?
PhD at University of Minnesota; Postdocs at University of Chicago and Penn State.
Who is Prof. Jian Qin?
Ratio of rate of heat conduction to the rate of heat storage.
What is the Fourier number?
Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough, and Akira Yoshino in 2019 for the development of this technology.
What are lithium-ion batteries?
In Latin, fugacity means this.
What is "tendency to flee"?
Statement that under the same conditions of temperature and pressure, equal volumes of different gases contain an equal number of molecules.
What is Avogadro's Law (or the Avogadro-Ampère hypothesis)?
PhD at University of Trieste, in Nanotechnology.
Who is Prof. Matteo Cargnello?