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Additional Information For Cengel and Ghajar - Chapter 6
Additional Information For Cengel and Ghajar - Chapter 6
Table 1 summarises the valid ranges and performances of the correlations. The laminar correlations could
predict approximately all the data within 5%, while a single correlation for the transitional, quasi-turbulent and
turbulent flow regimes could predict almost all the data (97%) within 10%.
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M. Everts, J.P. Meyer, Relationship between pressure drop and heat transfer of developing and fully
developed flow in smooth horizontal circular tubes in the laminar, transitional, quasi-turbulent and turbulent
flow regimes, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., 117 (2018) 1231-1250, 017.