Goodbye to bad vibes: A comparison of HTRI’s tube vibration analysis tools
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Goodbye to bad vibes: A comparison of HTRI’s tube vibration analysis tools

April 08, 2025

Most readers are aware that HTRI's shell-and-tube software, Xist®, includes an integrated analysis of flow-induced tube vibration. Why, then, does HTRI offer a separate tube vibration screening tool, Xvib®? In this article we review some key differences between the two programs and identify instances in which Xvib is the superlative vibration...

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