Mass Transfer Analogue
An analogous version of the Biot number (usually called the "mass transfer Biot number", or ) is also used in mass diffusion processes:
where:
- hm - film mass transfer coefficient
- LC - characteristic length
- DAB - mass diffusivity.
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