End-to-End High-Efficiency Heat Exchanger Design with Integrated CFD

TPMS lattice-based heat exchangers can deliver breakthrough thermal performance—but traditional CAD and CAE tools make them prohibitively slow to design and iterate. Modeling complex geometries in B-rep CAD is a bottleneck. Transferring models and meshing for CFD can take days of manual effort.

See how nTop eliminates these bottlenecks—design complete, high-performance heat exchangers from scratch with reliable implicit modeling techniques, use integrated, GPU-based CFD analysis, and leverage flow field data to inform geometry optimization.

Our live demo will cover:

• Designing a complete parametric heat exchanger in nTop—create plenums, internal TPMS lattice structures, and conformal features with reliable control over critical parameters
• Running GPU-accelerated CFD analysis directly on implicit geometry, now with CHT—coupled thermal-fluid analysis with no meshing or preprocessing required
• Applying analysis results to assess fluid and heat transfer performance—visualize temperature distributions along streamlines to understand thermal-hydraulic behavior throughout the flow path
• Systematically exploring design parameters using built-in CHT simulation and post-processing to guide iterative design refinement—parametric studies that reveal performance trade-offs and inform engineering decisions

Presenters

Jack Landsbach, Field Solutions Engineer, nTop

Max Gaedtke, Tech Simulation Lead, nTop

Download the nTop file used in this webinar: nTop Heat Exchanger