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Offset-Strip Fins

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Heat Transfer Enhancement in Plate and Fin Extended Surfaces

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This chapter intensively deals with offset-strip fins for plate-fin heat exchangers and plate-fin and tube heat exchangers. The performance of offset-strip fins and offset-strip fin arrays has been discussed. Various numerical studies and correlations for j-factor and f-factor have been presented.

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    Sujoy Kumar Saha, Hrishiraj Ranjan, Madhu Sruthi Emani & Anand Kumar Bharti

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Saha, S.K., Ranjan, H., Emani, M.S., Bharti, A.K. (2020). Offset-Strip Fins. In: Heat Transfer Enhancement in Plate and Fin Extended Surfaces. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20736-6_2

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