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The wavy fins have been widely used in the heat exchangers in coolering system, aerospace system and automotive. Especially, an automobile has the wavy fin and flat tube heat exchanger for oil cooling system. The objective of this research is the performance comparison of wavy fins for battle vehicle diesel engine oil-cooler by numerical analysis. The real type fin is the wavy fin with corrugated structure, and the comparative fin surfaces are plain, louver, lateral perforation and parallel wavy fin. The non-dimensional values of f-factor, j-factor, area goodness factor and volume goodness factor was performed on the performance comparison. The plain and louver fin shows the highest performance in pressure drop and heat transfer respectively. In the area goodness factor and volume goodness factor results, the parallel wavy fin and louver fin show the highest values at each result.