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5. Pressure Drop

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Abstract

This chapter first presents parametric analysis of the pressure drop and then provides a brief review of the modeling techniques for determination of the pressure drop and recommendation of top-performing pressure drop correlations, followed by an illustrative example.

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Metadata
Title
Pressure Drop
Author
Afshin J. Ghajar
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41626-3_5

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