Authors & acknowledgements#

hensmith was originally created and developed by Sarang S. Bhagwat as the heat exchanger network synthesis facility of BioSTEAM (biosteam.facilities.hxn, 2020), and is developed and maintained within the BioSTEAM Development Group. Sarang continues to lead hensmith developments and maintains the repository.

Here is a growing list of core contributors who have committed significant resources, expertise, and other impactful efforts:

  • Sarang S. Bhagwat (creator, lead developer and maintainer)

  • Yoel Cortes-Peña (co-developed the HeatExchangerNetwork facility)

hensmith is released under the University of Illinois/NCSA open-source license; see LICENSE.txt in the repository.