International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.42, No.11, 1945-1956, 1999
Heat transfer and friction correlation for compact louvered fin-and-tube heat exchangers
General heat transfer and friction correlations for louver fin geometry having round tube configuration were proposed in the present study. A total of 49 samples of louvered fin-and-tube heat exchangers with different geometrical parameters, including louver pitch, louver height, longitudinal tube pitch, transverse tube pitch, tube diameter, and fin pitch were used to develop the correlations. The proposed correlation describes 95.5% of the Coburn j and 90.8% of the friction factors within +/-15%.