Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to the analogy between

equations of heat and mass transfer operations.

(A) Sherwood number in mass transfer is analogous to Nusselt number in

heat transfer

(B) Prandtl number in heat transfer is analogous to Schmidt number in mass

transfer

(C) Reynolds number in mass transfer is analogous to Grashoff number in

heat transfer

(D) Reynolds number remains the same in both heat and mass transfer

1 Answer

Answer :

(C) Reynolds number in mass transfer is analogous to Grashoff number in

heat transfer

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