Thanks for your reply.
As the half-pipe and evaporating ammonia combo is present in most, but not all, large-scale brewery fermenters world-wide, I hope a design method is recorded somewhere! Perhaps one of those 'supplier heuristic knowledge' things? Although I suspect it's more the dominant h...
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I'm compiling open literature design methods to estimate heat transfer coefficients for three types of vessel jackets: annular (plain), half-pipe and dimple jackets. I've had some good success for single-phase flow, but have run aground when it comes to...