Thermal Analysis Partners

HXDesigner is a highly customizable application that designs, simulates and optimizes the performance of tube-fin micro-channel and wire-fin heat exchangers. This unique tool shortens product development timeframes and reduces the cost of product development and production. With one integrated tool you can design your product, simulate performance and optimize it for multiple objectives (e.g. cost, efficiency, power consumption, and others)
HXDesigner features include:

• Flexible tube-circuitry. Number of tube rows and columns limited only by available computer memory.
• User can connect tubes on-screen via consecutive mouse-clicks and can undo connections.
• Can account for 2-dimensional air mal-distribution depending on inputs.
• Popular heat-transfer (11), pressure drop (9), and void fraction (13) correlations implemented in the tool for different refrigerant phases. Refrigerant specific (e.g., CO2 supercritical) correlations also implemented.
• Ability to add user-defined correlations (for heat-transfer, pressure drop and fin efficiency) in the form of external libraries.
• Support for multiple fin types and fins with holes.
• User can input correction factors (multipliers) for heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops.
• Detailed results can be viewed in the program and plotted and can be exported to a spreadsheet program and optionally in formatted text. Tube circuitry can be printed and /or saved to a text file.
• User interface color scheme can be customized.
• Coil configurations can be saved in portable data format, such that other tools can use components designed with HXDesigner.
• Built-in features include Programmable Calculator, Unit Converter and Refrigerant Thermo-physical, Property Calculator.
• Ability to perform parametric analysis and create plots. Dimensions, refrigerant and air state can be varied.
• Can be coupled with Single/Multi-Objective Genetic Optimization Algorithms for optimization of cost, performance, fan power consumption etc. Results of such studies published.