Multimode fluid elastic instability analysis is made of heat exchanger tubes in cross flow. The stability analysis predicts that the flow velocity for onset of tube instability in nonuniform flow is lowered by participation of multiple tube modes with similar natural frequencies.

Issue Section:
Research Papers
Topics:
Flow (Dynamics), Fluids, Heat exchangers, Mode shapes, Stability, Cross-flow

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