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Taylor number [′tā·lər ‚nəm·bər]

(fluid mechanics)

A nondimensional number arising in problems of a rotating viscous fluid, written asT= (f²h⁴)/v², wherefis the Coriolis parameter (or, for a cylindrical system, twice the rate of rotation of the system),hthe depth of the fluid, andvthe kinematic viscosity; the square root of the Taylor number is a rotating Reynolds number, and the fourth root is proportional to the ratio of the depthhto the depth of the Ekman layer.

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