A new approach to teaching thermofluids dimensional analysis

A new method of dimensional analysis is presented by demonstrating its application to a range of problems in fluid flow and heat transfer. The technique is a development of a previously published and accepted method of inspectional analysis. This new technique is shown to give the correct results on both simple equations with solutions, and on more complex sets of partial differential equations without solutions. This development of a single method from the simple to the complex has obvious teaching advantages.