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Local heat transfer and skin friction around the tube perimeter of coils were studied in airflow. The heat transfer experiments were performed with two different coils D/d=23 and 15.6, and skin friction experiments were performed with three different coils D/d=25, 13.3 and 6.67 in the wide range of Re number from 4×103 till 105. Variation of the local heat transfer around the perimeter and along the tube was defined. The behavior of the shear stresses at the wall and of the flow modes were studied. Investigations of the heat transfer indicated that with the increase of D/d the difference between heat transfer in the initial thermal section and the stabilized heat transfer increases. Investigations of the shear stress and its fluctuations indicated that, in large-curvature coils, the transition from laminar-vortex flow to turbulent flow around the tube perimeter takes place at different values of Re. In the region of the external generatrix of the bend, the transition occurs at smaller Re, whereas at the internal generatrix, at larger Re.
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Poskas, P., Poskas, R. Experimental investigation of local heat transfer and skin friction in tube coils. J. of Therm. Sci. 11, 235–240 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-002-0060-y
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