Pressure drop in downward flow of condensing steam over a horizontal bundle of square pitched tubes

Experimental Heat Transfer

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 259-273

  Burnside, B M ^a   Cuthbertson, G C ^a   McNeil, D A ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042196978     PISSN: 08916152     EISSN: 15210480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08916150050175453     Document Type: Article

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