Modeling & Simulation of Heat Exchangers
Optimize heat exchanger design for performance and energy efficiency, material selection, durability and life prediction under harsh conditions.
ANSYS APPLICATIONS
Cost-Effective Performance and Durability
Used in a variety of settings across a range of scales, heat exchangers must perform reliably, often in harsh conditions, and be durable enough to operate effectively despite extremes of cyclical thermal loading—sometimes for years without replacement. Simulation offers a critical tool to optimize heat exchange performance, select the most appropriate materials and predict durability and life. Ansys heat exchanger simulation application capabilities provide that reliability.
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Diffuser and Tube Thread Shape Optimization
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Condensation and Evaporation
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Conjugate Heat Transfer
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Integration with the Overall System Model
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Hot and Cold Cycle Fatigue
Shape Optimization
Heat exchanger shape selection can be optimized by leveraging parameters, adjoint methods and response surfaces.
Conjugate Heat Transfer
Performing steady or transient conjugate heat transfer simulations determines heat exchanger performance and the impact of thermal stresses. Models can include fluid structure interaction, fatigue life prediction and multiphase boiling, condensation and evaporation.
System Level Integration
Using reduced order models (ROMs), high-fidelity physics simulations integrate with overall system level models for process integration and design optimization (PIDO).
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CFD software known for its advanced physics modeling and renowned for industry leading accuracy.
- Modern user-friendly interface
- Single window workflow—pre to post-processing
- Streamlined meshing and physics workflows
- Advanced physics modeling
- Efficient meshing and solver HPC scaling
Solve broad structural analysis needs with a suite of finite element analysis (FEA) solutions that provides in-depth analysis of structural and coupled-field behaviors.
- Easy to Use, Multi-Purpose Tool
- Persistent, Dependable Solver Technology
- Dynamic, Integrated Platform
Ansys Twin Builder is a powerful solution for building, validation and deploying simulation-based systems and digital twins:
- Build, validate, and deploy digital twins
- Digital twin models integrate real-world data
- Increase efficiency with digital twins
- Virtual prototype of a deployed system
- Advanced asset management with digital twins
- Ansys systems-level simulation know-how
Ansys Minerva, powered by Aras, is an enterprise-level, purpose-built simulation process and data management solution that enhances engineering productivity with an intuitive, easy-to-use, web-based user interface catering to all simulation workflows. Minerva is vendor-neutral and allows integration with a host of Ansys and third-party simulation and PLM software.
- Access and reuse simulation data
- Well-coordinated simulation process management
- HPC job submission and data management
- Project awareness with Role-based dashboards
- Access to simulation insights by non-experts
- Synchronize and exchange data with enterprise integration
Ansys optiSLang is an enterprise-level process integration and design optimization solution that allows vendor-neutral process integration for evaluation of optimal product design alternatives for cost and performance benefits.
- Simulation Tool Chain Automation
- Better understanding with design exploration
- AI/ML based design optimization
- Robustness evaluation and risk quantification
“Using Ansys for pressure vessel and exchanger analysis provides the robustness and reliability needed to solve the large, complex models.”
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