Heat Exchanger LMTD API
Heat-exchanger LMTD and effectiveness-NTU maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically. The lmtd endpoint computes the log mean temperature difference, LMTD = (ΔT1 − ΔT2)/ln(ΔT1/ΔT2), the true average driving temperature of a heat exchanger, from the hot and cold stream inlet and outlet temperatures for either a counterflow or a parallel-flow arrangement, and flags a temperature cross. The duty endpoint applies Q = U·A·LMTD·F — the heat duty equals the overall heat-transfer coefficient times the area times the LMTD times an optional correction factor — and solves for whichever of the duty, the coefficient, the area or the LMTD you leave out, taking the LMTD directly or from the four temperatures. The effectiveness endpoint uses the effectiveness-NTU method: from the hot and cold heat-capacity rates (given directly or as mass flow times specific heat) and the number of transfer units NTU = U·A/Cmin, it returns the capacity ratio, the effectiveness for the arrangement, and — given the inlet temperatures — the maximum and actual heat duty and the outlet temperatures. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for process, chemical and mechanical engineering tools, HVAC, refrigeration and thermal-design apps, and engineering education. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. This is two-stream heat-exchanger analysis; for the sensible heat of a single stream Q = m·c·ΔT use a specific-heat API.
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