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Radiators are used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to any other for the cause of cooling. Radiators are used for cooling internal combustion engines, especially in cars however also in piston-engine aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, stationary generating plant. The radiator transfers the heat from the fluid inside to the air out of doors, thereby cooling the fluid, which in flip cools the engine. Research is being carried out for several many years now, in improving the performance of the heat exchangers, having excessive degree of floor compactness and higher warmth transfer talents in car industry. In this thesis, the compact warmth exchangers have fins, louvers and tubes. Present examine makes use of the analysis tool to carry out a numerical have a look at on a compact warmth exchanger at special mass glide costs. The domain is recognized from literature and validation of present numerical method is installed first. Later the numerical evaluation is extended by modifying chosen geometrical and float parameters like louver pitch, air go with the flow charge, water drift fee, fin and louver thickness, via varying one parameter at a time and the outcomes are in comparison. The fabric used for fins of radiator is Aluminum material. Modeling is completed in CATIA and analysis is accomplished in ANSYS. Recommendations must be made on the premiere values and settings will be based totally on the variables tested, for the selected compact warmth exchanger.