Numerical methods of evaluating heat- and mass-transfer coefficients and local heat fluxes in surface condensers are outlined using the correlations for the vapour-side coefficients of Berman and Fuks, Chilton and Colburn, and Akers, Davis and Crawford. The procedures are particularly appropriate where a digital computer is used in solving the equations.
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