Chapter 1: Introduction to EES
Installing EES
Installing EES is relatively straightforward, but there are a few options that merit discussion. To
install the program, you will need both the Setup_EES.exe and EES.dft files. These files should
have been provided to you when you purchased the program or by a system administrator if you
obtained the program from your company or institution. There are a few institutions where the
EES.dft file has already been bundled with the setup file. Execute the Setup_EES.exe program
and click the Next button from the Welcome screen. Read the license agreement and, if you
agree, click the I Agree button and then click the Next button. Continue to click the Next button
until you see the Select Destination Directory dialog, shown in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1: Select Destination Directory dialog.
For historical reasons, the default directory that EES will be installed into is named EES32. EES
is a 32-bit program, but it will operate on all modern 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating
systems. You can change the directory name, if you wish, by clicking the Browse button.
Depending on the particular installation program, you will need to copy the EES.dft file to the
directory that you choose to install EES. Click the Next button after you have selected the
directory.
The next window, shown in Figure 1-2, provides several installation options. If selected, the
Install Heat Transfer Library option will install an extensive set of library functions that facilitate
heat transfer calculations. These functions have been developed to accompany the text book
Heat Transfer, by G. F. Nellis and S.A. Klein (2009). Selection of this option is recommended
unless you are sure that you will never be doing any heat transfer calculations. A discussion of
these library functions is provided in Chapter 12.
Two versions of EES are provided in the installation program. One version is specifically
developed to allow 3-dimensional plotting. Checking the Install 3D plotting capability option in
the Select Components dialog will install this version. The only reason for not selecting this
option is that it may be incompatible with the graphic display capabilities of some computer
systems. If EES fails to start after installation then this is likely the problem. In this case,