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Unread 02-04-2003, 10:07 PM   #19
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Originally posted by unregistered
be more general
perhaps
surface texture + heat convection (rate)

or so

anything interesting, post it eh ?
- there are even specific shapes that are better (inclined chevrons)
I've been googling till my brain is raw. I've found stuff discussing surface roughness from the scale of mountains down to about 3mm. Nothing discussing surface roughness on the scale of a sandblasted surface. (0.2-0.3mm RMS at a guess?)

Found a fair amount on flat plate heat exchangers when I threw "chevron" into the mix, but again, feature size was much greater than a sandblasted surface.

I don't know how this stuff scales, so I don't know if there is much relevance to the data on larger scale textures.
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