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Calculating the external heat exchange and aerodynamic drag of plate-finned air coolers

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Results are presented from an experimental study of heat exchange and pressure loss in plate-finned air coolers with different spacings of the fins.

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  1. Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute, USSR

    M. N. Chepurnoi, V. N. Lomakin, V. É. Shnaider & V. M. Chepurnoi

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  1. M. N. Chepurnoi
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 368–372, September, 1984.

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Chepurnoi, M.N., Lomakin, V.N., Shnaider, V.É. et al. Calculating the external heat exchange and aerodynamic drag of plate-finned air coolers. Journal of Engineering Physics 47, 1008–1011 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00873708

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