Sorry to re-open this old thread again.

Modeling of air cooler is discussed in his forum many

times. I have used both methods for modeling air cooler that is mechanical linkage method
for multi bay air cooler (4 or more bays) and first method described by Anindya(with
additional rotational restraints ) for single bay or two bay air cooler .
But this is first time that I have a split header even pass air cooler. Looking at detail
drawing ,I am not sure whether to include inlet and outlet piping in same model.
Since the air cooler has only two bays I have not used mechanical linkage method for
modeling air cooler. My problem is how to simulate split headers.
Since inlet and outlet header boxes are not connected to each other, I have modeled inlet
piping and outlet piping in separate model and have used total air cooler weight in both
models to get conservative result. I would like to know if my technique is correct to simulate
split header air cooler.