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Resistance of bundles of cylinders with flow around them by a gas at low reynolds numbers

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The article reports the results of an experimental investigation of the resistance of checkerboard bundles of tubes in a weakly rarefied flow of gas. The investigation was made under isothermal conditions in a range of Reynolds numbers Re=4.21–185.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 180–183, January–February, 1976.

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Gurov, V.I., Inozemtseva, E.N., Koshmarov, Y.A. et al. Resistance of bundles of cylinders with flow around them by a gas at low reynolds numbers. Fluid Dyn 11, 165–168 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023417

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