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 …

Ultra‐conductive heat transport showcases significant potentials in popular thermal
managements with convection, phase change, and heat source. However, it is captivated …

In this paper, a topology optimization model is proposed for transient heat conduction
structure design. In this model, a new performance index, named as the Regional …

Heat sinks are widely applied in industry, and heat transfer topology optimization can
improve their performance while saving materials. However, the prohibitive computational …

A new approach to performing sensitivity analysis of arbitrary objective functionals for
anisotropic elasticity is proposed in this work. Three different objective functionals have …

In this paper, a combination of the high-order numerical manifold method with material
interpolation is established with the goal of improving the optimization of cracked structures …

Among the various types of structural optimization, topology has been occupying a
prominent place over the last decades. It is considered the most versatile because it allows …

This paper presents a structural optimisation method in three-dimensional acoustic–elastic
coupled problems. The proposed optimisation method finds an optimal allocation of elastic …

The paper presents a level set based topology optimization method for unidirectional
phononic structures with finite layers of lattice cells. Boundary element method (BEM) is …

This paper focuses on the utilization of local radial basis functions (LRBFs) based level set
method (LSM) for topology optimization of two-dimensional thermal problems using both …