Design of heat exchangers for enhanced heat transfer involves a critical tradeoff between pressure drop and heat transfer. Fluent's CFD software lets you understand the distribution of heat transfer and quantify the contribution to pressure drop from specific flow details. Fluent's periodic modeling options allow you to model a single, fully-developed heat exchanger section and sophisticated turbulence models ensure that you get accurate predictions.

Velocity vectors colored by temperature illustrate the complex flow and heat transfer in this enhanced surface fin/tube heat exchanger bundle

Temperature prediction in a compact fin/tube heat exchanger

Courtesy of FINTUBE