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Hot water in hydronic heating lines or domestic water lines is best to be ran between 4 to 6 ft/s. This has been a good rule of thumb for noise and fitting/pipe erosion.

I need some help with a heat transfer issue. I am trying to calculate if a exposed non flowing water filled pipe will freeze based on a varying temperature profile that varies from 26 deg to 45 deg in 24 hrs. This will depend on the size of the pipe but that is a variable that can be changed...