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Research Reports: Shellside Flow and Vibration

STG-2 Mean Temperature Difference - A Reappraisal (1976; revised 1986; revised 2009)
STG-3 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Performance of Integral Low-Finned Tube Bundles; Effect of Fin Spacing (1981)
STG-4 Experimental Study of the Shell Nozzle Entry Region (1981)
STG-5 Mean Temperature Difference Correction Factor for the TEMA "H" Shell (1982)
STG-6 Pressure Drop in Shell-and-Tube Nozzles, Headers, and Annular Distributors (1985)
RB1-12 End Zone Effectiveness in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (1987)
STG-7 Performance Prediction of RODbaffle Exchangers (1987)
STG-8 Analysis of Data from Brine - Hydrocarbon Heat Exchangers Used in the Heber Geothermal Binary Power Plant (1988)
STG-9 Advanced Computational Methods for Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Design (1993)
STG-10 Gas Radiative Component in the Thermal Calculation of Tubular Heat Exchangers (1994)
Q1-1 IST Incrementation Technique (1996)
Q1-3 The Fouling Factor: Use and Misuse in Heat Exchanger Design (1996)
Q4-4 Annular Distributors (1999)
Q5-4 Heat Exchanger Simulation for Startup (2000)
STG-11 Single-Phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers with Longitudinal Fins (2001; rev 03/2010)
Q6-2 Updated Shellside Two-Phase Nozzle Pressure Drop Method (2002)
STG-12 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop for Two Immiscible Liquids Flowing in Tubes (2002)
STG-13 Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of Impingement Plates (2002)
Q7-4 CFD Study of Inlet Zone Performance: Parallel vs. Perpendicular Segmental Baffle Cuts (2003)
STG-14 Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers with Longitudinal Fins (2003)
STG-15 Preventing Freezing in Heat Exchangers (2004)
STG-16 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Methods for Longitudinal Flow over Low-Finned Tubes (2005)
STG-17 Annular distributors: A parametric design study (2005; rev 09/2015)
Q10-1 The Benefits of Numerical Design Optimization (2006)
Q13-2 Tubesheet Metal Temperature Calculation Method (2009)
Q13-5 Risk-Based Design Margin Selection for Heat Exchangers (2009)
Q14-4 Improved Heat Transfer Coefficients for Calculating Tubesheet Temperature (2010)
Q15-3 Initial Visualization Studies of Shellside Phase Separation (2011)
STG-18 Using Perforated Plates to Improve Flow Distribution in X Shells (2013)
STG-19 Design Guidance for Impingement Rods (2014)
STG-20 Resistance Factor Design Method (2015)
STG-21 Computational Simulation of Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Temperature-induced Mechanical Stress in a Shell-and-tube Heat Exchanger (2017)
STG-22 Review of Supercritical Fluid Heat Transfer (2019)

STV-1 Tube Vibrations in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (1974; revised 1978)
RB1-2 Tube Vibration Tests in Industrial-Sized Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (1980)
RB1-3 HTRI Analysis of New Cases in the DOE/ANL/HTRI Tube Vibration Data Bank (1980)
RB1-4 HTRI Computer Programs Vibration Analysis U-Bend Simulation Problem Adjustments (1980)
RB1-5 Some Field Fixes for Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers with Flow-Induced Tube Vibration Problems (1981)
RB1-6 Flow-Induced Tube Vibration Tests of Full and No-Tubes-in-Window Bundles with Six Crosspasses and 30 Degree Layout with a Tube Pitch-to-Diameter (1981)
RB1-10 FIVER - A New Design Concept to Prevent Tube Damage from Flow-Induced Vibration in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (1983)
RB1-11 Vibration Test of Simulated U-Tube Bundle with Exit Nozzle Inside of U-Bend Tangent (1985)
STV-2 Shellside Flow-Induced Tube Vibration in Typical Heat Exchanger Configurations (1986)
RB1-13 Additional FIVER Tests (1987)
STV-3 Flow-Induced Vibration in Tube Bundles with a Pitch Ratio of 1.42 (1988)
STV-4 Flow-Induced Acoustic Vibration in Tube Bundles (1988; revised 1994)
STV-5 Design of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers to Avoid Flow-Induced Vibration Problems (1989)
STV-6 Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Straight Tubes (1991)
STV-7 Comparison of HTRI Computer Vibration Analysis Predictions with Experience for Cases in the DOE/ANL/HTRI Vibration Data Bank (1991)
STV-8 A Comparison: 1988 TEMA Standards Vibration Section and HTRI Vibration Analysis (1993)
Q1-8 Current Knowledge in Two-Phase Flow-Induced Vibration (1996)
STV-9 Review of Two-Phase Flow-Induced Vibration in Heat Exchangers (1999)
STV-10 Evaluation of Fluidelastic Instability Analysis (2000)
STV-11 Design Guidance for Tube Vibration with Two-Phase Flows (2002)
STV-12 Updated Methods to Predict Acoustic Vibration in Heat Exchangers (2002)
Q8-1 Improved Screening of Fluidelastic Instability Using Mode Shape Weighting (2004)
STV-13 Calculating Tube Vibration Amplitude (2004)
Q9-1 Contributions Enhance Tube Vibration Data Bank (2005)
Q9-3 Modeling Intermediate Tube Supports in Xist (2005)
STV-14 Updated Methods for Predicting Critical Velocity for Fluidelastic Instability (2006)
STV-15 Select Crossflow Velocity Distributions for Analyzing Tube Vibration Potential (2007)
STV-16 Calculating Fluidelastic Instability of U-Tubes Near Inlet Nozzles (2009)

S-SS-3-1 Stream Analysis Method for Prediction of Shellside Heat Transfer and Pressure drop in Segmentally-Baffled Exchangers (1967; revised 1977; revised 2007; revised 2024)
S-SS-3-2 Parametric Response Study of Segmentally Baffled Shell-and-Tube Exchanger Performance (1967)
S-SS-3-3 Performance of 11 Fin/Inch Medium-High Fin Tubes in Shell-and-Tube Exchangers with Segmental and Double-Segmental Baffles (1971)
S-SS-3-4 Performance of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers with Double-Segmental Baffles (Comparison with Segmental Baffles and No Baffles) (1972)
RB1-1 Theoretical Basis for the Shellside Temperature Profile Distortion Correction Factor (1979)
RB1-7 Proposed Approach for Prediction of Theoretical Delta Correction Mixing Factor (1981)
RB1-8 Improvement of the Shellside Heat Transfer Tuberow Correction Factor (1982)
RB1-9 An Investigation of the Applicability of the ST-4 Mod. 5.30 Computer Program to Near-Critical and Supercritical Fluids (1982)
S-SS-3-5 Tube-Baffle Leakage Flow Analysis for Integral Finned Tube Bundles (1982)
S-SS-3-6 Improvements to the Stream Analysis Method for Prediction of Shellside Heat Transfer (Emphasis on Laminar Flow) (1985)
S-SS-3-7 Heat Transfer Performance of Integral Low-Finned Tube Bundles; Liquid Application (1986)
S-SS-3-8 Theoretical Method to Evaluate Shellside Temperature Profile Distortion Correction Factor (1986)
S-SS-3-9 Improvements to the Stream Analysis Method for Prediction of Shellside Pressure Drop (1987)
S-SS-3-10 Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer in NTIW Bundles (1992)
S-SS-3-11 Analysis of ANL Shell-and-Tube Pressure-Drop Data and Comparison with the ST-5 Computer Program (1993)
Q1-9 IST Incremental Delta Correction Method (1996)
S-SS-3-12 Non-Segmental Baffles in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (1999)
S-SS-3-13 Re-evaluation of the HTRI Delta Factor for Incremental Calculations (2001)
S-SS-3-14 CFD Study of NTIW Bundles (2004)
S-SS-3-15 Heat Transfer Performance of Shellside Single-Phase Flow for Plain and Low-Finned Tubes (2004)
S-SS-3-16 CFD Study of Flow Distribution in TEMA X Shells (2004)
S-SS-3-17 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Methods for Square One Baffles (2007)
S-SS-3-18 CFD Simulations of Single-Phase Turbulent Shellside Flow (2008)
S-SS-3-19 Improved Pressure Drop Method for Helical Quadrant Baffle Exchangers (2009)
S-SS-3-20 Single-Phase Heat Transfer Outside Inline Plain and Low-Finned Tube Bundles (2009)
S-SS-3-21 Disk-and-Doughnut Baffled Heat Exchangers: CFD Simulations and Methods (2010)
S-SS-3-22 Stream Analysis in a Single-Segmentally Baffled Exchanger: CFD vs. Xist (2011)
S-SS-3-23 Single-Phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop for Plain Tube Banks (2012)
S-SS-3-24 Single-Phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop for Low-Finned Tube Banks (2012)
S-SS-3-25 Analysis of NTIW shellside performance using CFD and Xist (2013)
S-SS-3-26 Crossflow Mixed Convection Heat Transfer for Horizontal Tube Banks (2014)
S-SS-3-27 A Review of the A-stream Model of the Stream Analysis Method (2014)
S-SS-3-28 Optimal Application of Shellside Sealing Devices (2014)
S-SS-3-29: CFD Simulations of Diabatic Shellside Viscous Flows (2015)
S-SS-3-30 Predictions of Single-phase Flow in TEMA F-shell Heat Exchanger: CFD vs. Xist (2022)