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Conditions of Use

HyDro is available free of charge only for the purposes of research and education.

Please cite the paper below if you publish your research results based on HyDro.

[1] H. Matsui, Y. Noda, and T. Hasegawa, "Hybrid Energy-Minimization Simulation of Equilibrium Droplet Shapes on Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Patterned Surfaces", Langmuir, 2012, 28 (44), pp 15450-15453.

For other purposes, including the development, manufacture or sale of the products based on this software, the licensing agreement with our Institute (AIST) is needed.

Disclaimer

The software is supplied “as is” and all use is at your own risk. AIST disclaims all warranties of any kind, either express or implied, as to the software, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or non‐infringement of proprietary rights.

Hardware Requirements

The program runs on any PCs with Java SE 6 (or newer) installed.

If Java is not installed on your PC, please install from www.java.com. (free of charge)

Download

The latest version is 1.00 (July 18, 2013).

Program & Manual: HyDro100.zip (903 KB)

Same file can be used in any operating systems.

After download, please decompress the zip file. The zip file contains four files below.

    • HyDro.jar

    • HyDro.exe

    • HyDro_manual_japanese.pdf

    • HyDro_manual_english.pdf

    • sample.txt

How to Launch

For Windows users

Please double-click "HyDro.jar" or "HyDro.exe".

For Mac and Linux users

Please double-click "HyDro.jar".

In case the program did not start, please type the command below in command prompt.

javaw -jar (file path)\HyDro.jar