Orientational analysis—a supplement to dimensional analysis—I

✍ Scribed by Donald B. Siano

• Book ID: 103088163
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 988 KB
• Volume: 320
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(85)90031-6

✦ Synopsis

A method for extending the methods of dimensional analysis is based upon assigning "orientational" symbols to physical quantities such as area, force and angle which are spatially oriented. These symbols are shown to form a noncyclic group with four members, and they can be used to derive additional information that resolve problems incompletely solved by conventional dimensional analysis.