To illustrate the roles of various terms in the governing equations, we present here the non-dimensionalized governing compressible Navier Stokes equations with particles. We define the non-dimensional variables as:
where the subscript denotes a reference value. Under these scalings, the Navier Stokes equations become:
Where is the Reynolds number, is the Froude number, , is the Stokes number which for Stokesian particles is , the Prandtl number (which is assumed constant and equal to 0.72) , the Nusselt number (for Stokesian particles) and the Mach number .
The non-dimensional set of equations for the particles reads:
where is the ratio of the particle specific heat capacity to the fluid isochoric specific heat capacity.