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Stabilization effects in flow through helically coiled pipes

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When a flow through a straight pipe is passed through a coiled section, two stabilizing effects come into play. First, in a certain Reynolds number range, the flow that is turbulent in the straight pipe becomes completely laminar in the coiled section. Second, the stabilization effect of the coil persists to a certain degree even after the flow downstream of the coil has been allowed to develop in a long straight section. In this paper, we report briefly on aspects related to these two effects.

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  1. Mason Laboratory, Yale University, P.O. Box 2159, 06520, New Haven, CT, USA

    K. R. Sreenivasan & P. J. Strykowski

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Sreenivasan, K.R., Strykowski, P.J. Stabilization effects in flow through helically coiled pipes. Experiments in Fluids 1, 31–36 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282264

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