Practice - Natural Convection
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Practice Questions
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What is natural convection?
💡 Hint: Think about how warm air behaves.
Define the Sherwood number.
💡 Hint: It’s a measure of mass transfer effectiveness.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What causes natural convection?
💡 Hint: Consider how warm fluids act.
True or False: The Sherwood number increases with better mass transfer efficiency.
💡 Hint: Is it a direct correlation?
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Challenge Problems
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Evaluate the mass transfer scenario for a chemical spill in a lake considering Reynolds and Sherwood numbers.
💡 Hint: Connect flow behavior to mass transport principles.
Discuss how natural convection might vary in a stratified lake versus an unstratified river.
💡 Hint: Consider the density differences in both scenarios.
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