A mathematical model/equation without parameters, like viscosity in Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluid flow, can be used to make a priori predictions of physical reality without relying on some measurement of any parameter like viscosity. This is the ideal model of physics according to Einstein, which fulfils Kant's idea of a priori knowledge, as knowledge from pure reason without need of observation. A parameter-free model allows computational ab initio prediction.
Here are examples of mathematical models which are parameter-free in suitable units:
- Newton's Law of gravitation.
- Maxwell's equations for electromagnetics.
- Euler's equations for incompressible flow with vanishingly small viscosity.
- Schrödinger's equations for atoms and molecules.

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