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Calculation of nonsteady convective heat transfer for turbulent viscous incompressible flow in a tube of elliptical cross section

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An approximate analytical expression is obtained for the temperature field. The variations of the dimensionless mass-average temperature of the fluid and the dimensionless integral-average heat flux at the tube wall are determined for various values of the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 912–915, November, 1978.

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Ryadno, A.A., Kochubei, A.A. Calculation of nonsteady convective heat transfer for turbulent viscous incompressible flow in a tube of elliptical cross section. Journal of Engineering Physics 35, 1370–1372 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00859693

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