Enhanced heat transfer/Journal of enhanced heat transfer · 2004 · 38 citations · 0 references
EngineeringMaterials EngineeringMechanical EngineeringComputational Heat TransferHeat TransferOptimizationHeat ConductionHeat FlowHeat Transfer AnalysisHeat Transfer ModelingThermal DesignThermal SimulationEffective Thermal ConductivityHeat SourcesHeat Transfer OptimizationHeat TransportNonuniform Heat GenerationNumerical SimulationThermal OptimizationThermal System Optimization
A fundamental problem of heat conduction optimization, the design of the most effective heat transport path using a given volume of high conductivity material, was studied in this article. Analogous to natural selection, bionic optimization is developed to construct the optimal constructs of the high conductivity material. In the numerical simulation, the high conductivity material was treated as being alive, growing at the location with maximum temperature gradient. Then, the bionic optimization is effectively used to construct the heat transport paths for a square bar and volume-to-point problem with uniform or nonuniform heat sources.