What is the physical significance of the Sherwood number? How is it defined? To what dimensionless number does it correspond in heat transfer? What does a Sherwood number of 1 indicate for a plane fluid layer?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Mass convection is expressed on a mass basis in an analogous manner to heat transfer as



Where is the average mass transfer coefficient in m/s, As is the surface area in m2, and are the densities of species A at the surface (on the fluid side) and the free stream, respectively.