Assigning Heat Exchanger Properties

A heat exchanger is a two-dimensional modeling boundary condition used to represent the heat exchange with the surrounding air. For a planar heat exchanger in Ansys Icepak, a lumped-parameter model is used to model a heat exchange element. The heat exchanger enables you to specify both the pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient as functions of the velocity normal to the radiator. To assign a heat exchanger boundary condition, select a piece of two-dimensional geometry (for example, a sheet).