Who's name again?

We were studying fluidized bed when we came across something called the ‘Richardson and Zaki’ correlation in the lecture notes. I find this amusing since I know a friend named Zaki and it’s rare to find a theory with a name that’s remotely ‘sort-of’ Malaysian.

Sadly, the lecturer broke my reverie by saying that the story is that the aforementioned Richardson is THE Richardson in ‘Coulson and Richardson’ (a really famous and useful chemical engineering book) and Zaki is the one that cleaned the apparatus. Oh well…

Still, isn’t it amazing to have a law (or correlation, relationship, formula etc.) that has your name? Hmmm, like Yazid’s law or something, he he.

Yaz.