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Estimation of fin efficiencies of regular tubes arrayed in circumferential fins

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    To briefly describe these models, it is first recall that the tube bundle is arranged either in an in-line or staggered layouts with different transversal and longitudinal pitches, XT and XL, as sketched in Fig. 1a and Fig. 1b, where the shaded areas are the unit cells of the continuous fin to evaluate the heat transfer rate. The single equivalent radial fin model (1D-SERF) is one of the most widely employed approximations [31,14]. In the 1D-SERF model the unit cell is replaced by an annular circular sector of the same area and internal diameter equal to the tube diameter.

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