We were honored to have Murthy Lakshmiraju, from VIAS3D present at the SIMULIA Americas Users Conference, May 3-4, 2023 in Novi, Michigan.

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Abstract: Air Cooled Heat Exchangers (ACHE) are used in oil and gas, power, steel, automotive, and several other industries to remove heat from process fluids. In a typical ACHE, a fan forces or induces ambient air to flow across a bundle of finned tubes carrying hot fluids. An ACHE may be as small as an automobile radiator or large enough to reject heat from a refinery or a power plant that requires over 100s of modules, each with 16 to 60-ft diameter fans. ACHEs are an economical and environmentally green" solution that does not require extensive water treatments to reduce fouling and corrosion problems or wastewater discharge to the environment.

Bio: Murthy Lakshmiraju, Ph.D., has over 15 years of advanced use and experience in CFD to solve real-life engineering problems for numerous industries, including appliances, energy, CPG, and Life Science. He graduated with Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Tech, USA. He has experience in different flow physics, including advanced turbulence modeling, multiphase flow, heat transfer, Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction (DFBI), Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT), and reacting flows with combustion and emission modeling.