Progress of constructal theory in China over the past decade

L Chen, H Feng, Z **e, F Sun - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Constructal theory has been widely used in performance optimizations of various problems.
Among these problems, engineering problem is a hot topic for constructal theory. The …

Progress in study on constructal theory and its applications

LG Chen - Science China Technological Sciences, 2012‏ - Springer
The emergence and development of constructal theory, which has been a new discipline
branch to research sorts of structures in nature and engineering, are reviewed. The core of …

[HTML][HTML] Constructal design of a fan-shaped high thermal conductivity path in a square heat generation body

H Feng, L Chen, F Zhang, Y Ge - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A fan-shaped high thermal conductivity path (FSHTCP) model in a square heat generation
body (SHGB) is built in this paper. For the given areas of the FSHTCP and SHGB, the …

Constructal heat conduction optimization: Progresses with entransy dissipation rate minimization

S Wei, L Chen, Z **e - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Combining entransy theory with constructal theory in heat transfer optimization, this review
summarizes constructal entransy dissipation optimizations of 'volume-point'heat conduction …

Topology optimization using the SIMP method for multiobjective conductive problems

G Marck, M Nemer, JL Harion, S Russeil… - … Heat Transfer, Part B …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
The efficient cooling of a finite-size volume generating heat, including adiabatic boundary
conditions with the exception of a small heat sink, poses the problem of optimal allocation of …

Effect of branching level on the performance of constructal theory based Y-shaped liquid cooling heat sink

Z Lu, K Zhang, J Liu, F Li - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Most of heat in data centers is released from electronic chips in servers. Thus, it is more
effective to mitigate the heat from electronic chips directly. Furthermore, the cooling load as …

Constructal design of X-shaped conductive pathways for cooling a heat-generating body

G Lorenzini, C Biserni, LAO Rocha - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
This paper applies constructal design to discover the configuration that facilitates the access
of the heat that flows through X-shaped pathways of high-conductivity material embedded …

Phi and Psi shaped conductive routes for improved cooling in a heat generating piece

MR Hajmohammadi, OJ Shariatzadeh… - International Journal of …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Because the cost and occupancy of high conductivity materials are the elements of major
concern, searching for a better design of high conductivity pathways embedded into a heat …

Fork-shaped highly conductive pathways for maximum cooling in a heat generating piece

MR Hajmohammadi, VA Abianeh… - Applied thermal …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
In engineering practice, the space occupied by high conductivity materials together with the
cost are the two elements of major concern. Therefore, seeking for more efficient designs of …

An efficient numerical method with a parallel computational strategy for solving arbitrarily shaped inclusions in elastoplastic contact problems

Z Wang, X **, Q Zhou, X Ai… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The plastic zone developed during elastoplastic contact may be effectively modeled as an
inclusion in an isotropic half space. This paper proposes a simple but efficient computational …