.TRANSFORM.HeatExchangers.BellDelaware_STHX.BaseClasses.HeatTransfer.BellDelaware

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The Lyon-Martinelli heat transfer correlation is for flow of liquid metal in circular tubes with contant heat flux along the tube wall.

The correlation was taken from the following textbook:

M. M. Wakil

Nuclear Heat Transport 1993

eq. 10-2 pg. 268

and is reported valid for:

• liquid metal coolant
• flow in circular tubes
• constant heat flux along tube wall