A review about the engineering design of optimal heat transfer systems using topology optimization

T Dbouk - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Topology optimization (TO) is a promising numerical technique for designing optimal
engineering designs in many industrial applications. It is expected that it might become an …

Topology optimization for architected materials design

M Osanov, JK Guest - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Advanced manufacturing processes provide a tremendous opportunity to fabricate materials
with precisely defined architectures. To fully leverage these capabilities, however, materials …

Large scale three-dimensional topology optimisation of heat sinks cooled by natural convection

J Alexandersen, O Sigmund, N Aage - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016 - Elsevier
This work presents the application of density-based topology optimisation to the design of
three-dimensional heat sinks cooled by natural convection. The governing equations are the …

Topology optimization of a pseudo 3D thermofluid heat sink model

JHK Haertel, K Engelbrecht, BS Lazarov… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the application of density-based topology optimization to the design
of air-cooled forced convection heat sinks. To reduce the computational burden that is …

A fully developed flow thermofluid model for topology optimization of 3D-printed air-cooled heat exchangers

JHK Haertel, GF Nellis - Applied thermal engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, density-based topology optimization is applied to the design of the air-side
surface of dry-cooled power plant condensers. A topology optimization model assuming a …

Investment casting and experimental testing of heat sinks designed by topology optimization

T Lei, J Alexandersen, BS Lazarov, F Wang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Topology optimization (TO) is an attractive numerical tool to obtain optimized engineering
designs, which has been originally developed for mechanical optimization and extended to …

Design of passive coolers for light-emitting diode lamps using topology optimisation

J Alexandersen, O Sigmund, KE Meyer… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Topology optimised designs for passive cooling of light-emitting diode (LED) lamps are
investigated through extensive numerical parameter studies. The designs are optimised for …

A “poor man's” approach to topology optimization of natural convection problems

J Asmussen, J Alexandersen, O Sigmund… - Structural and …, 2019 - Springer
Topology optimization of natural convection problems is computationally expensive, due to
the large number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) in the model and its two-way coupled …

Discrete variable topology optimization for simplified convective heat transfer via sequential approximate integer programming with trust‐region

XY Yan, Y Liang, GD Cheng - International Journal for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a discrete variable topology optimization method to solve the simplified
convective heat transfer (SCHT) design optimization modeled by Newton's law of cooling …

A level-set method for steady-state and transient natural convection problems

P Coffin, K Maute - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2016 - Springer
This paper introduces a topology optimization method for 2D and 3D, steady-state and
transient heat transfer problems that are dominated by natural convection in the fluid phase …