Nh. Kim et al., HEAT-TRANSFER AND FRICTION CORRELATIONS FOR WAVY PLATE FIN-AND-TUBE HEAT-EXCHANGERS, Journal of heat transfer, 119(3), 1997, pp. 560-567
This paper deals with heat exchanges having plate fins of herringbone
wave configuration. Correlations are developed to predict the air-side
heat transfer coefficient and friction factor as a function of flow c
onditions and geometric variables of the heat exchanger. Correlations
are provided for both staggered and in-line arrays of circular tubes.
A multiple regression technique was used to correlate 41 wavy fin geom
etries by Beecher and Fagan (1987), Wang et al. (1995), and Beecher (1
968). For the staggered layout, 92 percent of the heat transfer data a
re correlated within +/-10 percent and 91 percent of the friction data
are correlated within +/-15 percent.