佩克莱特数是流体力学中的无量纲数，指流体中对流和扩散质量、热量之比，计算式为：

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佩克莱特数以Pe表示，是一个无因次参数，用来表示对流速率与扩散速率之比。若Pe >> 1，表示流速大，扩散十分缓慢，故当物质被带往下游时，扩散云团之尺度几乎不变，扩散云团可视为一凝结云团向下游平移，扩散对浓度的影响可予以忽略。反之，当Pe << 1时，表示扩散十分快速，而扩散主导浓度的变化。

The Péclet number (Pe) is a class of dimensionless numbers relevant in the study of transport phenomena in a continuum. It is named after the French physicist Jean Claude Eugène Péclet. It is defined to be the ratio of the rate of advection of a physical quantity by the flow to the rate of diffusion of the same quantity driven by an appropriate gradient. In the context of species or mass transfer, the Péclet number is the product of the Reynolds number and the Schmidt number. In the context of the thermal fluids, the thermal Peclet number is equivalent to the product of the Reynolds number and the Prandtl number.