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• TITLE: Excel as an Educational Platform for Design Analyses of Fluid-Thermal Systems

  AUTHORS: Mohamed M. El-Awad, Mohammed S. Al-Saidi

  KEYWORDS: Fluid-Thermal Systems, Design Optimisation, Excel, Solver, VBA

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol.10 No.2, May 31, 2022

  ABSTRACT: Equipped with its Solver and-in and VBA, Microsoft Excel makes an ideal educational platform for design analyses of fluid-thermal systems. This paper illustrates this capability by considering a common type of these systems; which is the double-pipe heat exchanger. While Solver is used for the optimisation analysis, VBA is used for the development of a user-defined function (UDF) that determines the optimum standard-pipe size for the system.