Vortex shedding from finned tubes
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W.A. Mair; P.D.F. Jones; R.K.W. Palmer
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Article
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1975
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The frequency of regular vortex shedding from a finned tube of the kind used in heat exchangers has been measured for an isolated tube in a wind tunnel. A Strouhal number expressed in terms of an effective diameter, defined as the frontal area per unit length of tube, is found to be nearly constant