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    Fanning friction factor


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    The Fanning friction factor, named after John Thomas Fanning (18371911), is a dimensionless number used
    in fluid flow calculations. It is related to the shear stress at the wall as:

    where:
    is the shear stress at the wall
    is the Fanning friction factor of the pipe
    is the fluid velocity in the pipe
    is the density of the fluid
    The wall shear stress can, in turn, be related to the pressure loss by multiplying the wall shear stress by the wall
    area (
    for a pipe) and dividing by the cross-sectional flow area (
    for a pipe). Thus

    The friction head can be related to the pressure loss due to friction by dividing the pressure loss by the product
    of the acceleration due to gravity and the density of the fluid. Accordingly, the relationship between the friction
    head and the Fanning friction factor is:

    where:
    is the friction loss (in head) of the pipe.
    is the Fanning friction factor of the pipe.
    is the fluid velocity in the pipe.
    is the length of pipe.
    is the local acceleration of gravity.
    is the pipe diameter.

    Fanning friction factor formul


    This friction factor is one-fourth of the Darcy friction factor, so attention must be paid to note which one of these
    is meant in the "friction factor" chart or equation consulted. Of the two, the Fanning friction factor is the more
    commonly used by Chemical Engineers and those following the British convention.
    The formulae below may be used to obtain the Fanning friction factor for common applications.
    The friction factor for laminar flow in round tubes is often taken to be:
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    where Re is the Reynolds number of the flow.


    For a square channel the value used is:

    The Darcy friction factor can also be expressed as[1]

    where:
    is the shear stress at the wall
    is the density of the fluid
    is the average fluid velocity
    For the turbulent flow regime, the relationship between the Fanning friction factor and the Reynolds number is
    more complex and is governed by the Colebrook equation [2] which is implicit in :

    Various explicit approximations of the related Darcy friction factor have been developed for turbulent flow.
    Stuart W. Churchill[3] developed a formula that covers the friction factor for both laminar and turbulent flow.
    This was originally produced to describe the Moody chart, which plots the Darcy-Weisbach Friction factor
    against Reynolds number. The Darcy Weisbach Formula
    is 4 times the Fanning friction factor and so a
    factor of

    has been applied to produce the formula given below.

    Re, Reynolds number (unitless);


    , roughness of the inner surface of the pipe (dimension of length);
    D, inner pipe diameter;

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    References
    1. ^ Yunus, Cengel. Heat and Mass Transfer. New York: Mc Graw Hull, 2007.
    2. ^ Colebrook, C.F. and White, C.M. 1937, "Experiments with Fluid friction roughened pipes.", Proc. R.Soc.(A),
    161
    3. ^ Churchill, S.W., 1977, "Friction factor equation spans all fluid-flow regimes", Chem. Eng., 91

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