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Natural Convection Heat Transfer From Horizontal Cylinders

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A vast amount of literature exists for natural convection from horizontal cylinders. This chapter separates the field into two main time periods: early investigators and modern developments. Early investigators focused on analytical and experimental techniques, and modern investigations have focused on using computational fluid dynamics. Nusselt number correlations are presented from many sources for natural convection from horizontal cylinders.

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Boetcher, S.K.S. (2014). Natural Convection Heat Transfer From Horizontal Cylinders. In: Natural Convection from Circular Cylinders. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08132-8_2

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