Question

Sherwood number is given by

(a) 3/2 h m L/D

(b) ½ h m L/D

(c) 3 h m L/D

(d) h m L/D

The question was posed to me during an internship interview.

Origin of the question is Convective Mass Transfer topic in division Modes and Diffusion of Mass Transfer

Answer 1

Right option is (d) h m L/D

To explain I would say: It is a non-dimensional mass transfer number.