The phrase "superficial number" is an acceptable and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to a figure or statistic that, while correct, is misleading in its representation of a situation or phenomenon. For example, you could say, "The reported graduation rate of 97% is an impressive superficial number, but the actual number of students graduating is much lower due to high dropout rates."
— Tony Romo looked and sounded like a veteran quarterback finally ready to shed his image as a gunslinger with superficial numbers.
Finally, most new marketers end up focusing on superficial numbers such as total "likes," views, or web traffic.
Note that the infection rate for deep plus superficial numbers and percentages does not necessarily equal that for any catheter-related infection because of different numerators and denominators There were 211 superficial infections in nine studies with a total of 4,235 patients (Table 1), giving an overall infection rate of 4.6%95%5% CI 4.0 to 5.2) (Table 2).
The corresponding superficial Reynolds number is between 0.6 and 8.50.
The superficial Reynolds number of water and air phases has been varied in the range of ReL = 50,130 87,730, and ReG = 3 18.5, respectively.
Pipe inclination angle as well as superficial Reynolds number of gas (Resg) and liquid (Resl) were chosen as input parameters of different structures of multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural networks, while the corresponding void fraction was selected as their output parameter.
In the present study, FAC wear of carbon-steel piping was simulated experimentally by circulating air water mixtures through hydrocal (CaSO4·1/2H2O) test sections at liquid superficial Reynolds number, Re = 20,000, and different air mass flow rates.
The onset of chaotic, time-dependent flow occurs at superficial Reynolds numbers of about 110 150.
The onset of local fluctuations (end of laminar regime) is observed at superficial Reynolds numbers on the order of 100.
Flow is generalized by representing the flow patternsas superficial Reynolds numbers for both liquid and gas phase.
