Thermal metamaterials: From static to dynamic heat manipulation

C Fan, CL Wu, Y Wang, B Wang, J Wang - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Static and dynamic metamaterials have been extensively studied for their ability to
manipulate different physical fields and directed to broad applications. Because the …

A brief review on thermal metamaterials for cloaking and heat flux manipulation

I Peralta, VD Fachinotti… - Advanced Engineering …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Progress in material science has allowed the control of different physical fields in a manner
that would be unachievable with ordinary materials. The development of engineered …

Controlling thermal waves with transformation complex thermotics

L Xu, J Huang - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
Conduction and convection are two fundamental methods of heat transfer, which are
generally considered independent. We manage to unify them by coining a complex thermal …

Optimizing the structural topology of bifunctional invisible cloak manipulating heat flux and direct current

G Fujii, Y Akimoto - Applied physics letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We generate optimal topologies in the structural design of bifunctional cloaks manipulating
heat flux and direct current, using topology optimization that incorporates both thermal …

Topology optimization of thermal cloak using the adjoint lattice Boltzmann method and the level-set method

JW Luo, L Chen, ZH Wang, WQ Tao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a topology optimization (TO) method for thermal cloak design based on
the adjoint lattice Boltzmann method and the level-set method. The gradient-type TO method …

Experimental demonstration of thermal chameleonlike rotators with transformation-invariant metamaterials

F Yang, B Tian, L Xu, J Huang - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
Intelligent metamaterials have aroused intensive research interest due to their adaptive
responses to environmental changes. However, existing transformation-thermotics-based …

Particle swarm optimization-based algorithms for solving inverse problems of designing thermal cloaking and shielding devices

GV Alekseev, DA Tereshko - International journal of heat and mass transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
Inverse problems associated with designing cylindrical thermal layered shielding and
cloaking shells are studied. Using the optimization method these inverse problems are …

Design via topology optimisation and experimental assessment of thermal metadevices for conductive heat flux shielding in transient regime

JCÁ Hostos, B Storti, N Lefevre, V Sobotka… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The design via density-based topology optimisation (TO) of thermal metadevices for
conductive heat flux manipulation in transient regime is introduced in this work. Such …

Designing thermal energy harvesting devices with natural materials through optimized microstructures

Q Ji, X Chen, J Liang, V Laude, S Guenneau… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metamaterial thermal energy devices obtained from transformation optics have recently
attracted wide attention due to their vast potential in energy storage, thermal harvesting or …

Topology-optimized thermal carpet cloak expressed by an immersed-boundary level-set method via a covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy

G Fujii, Y Akimoto - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
Our proposal, a topology optimization method for thermal carpet cloaks, eliminates the
disturbance caused by a bump obstacle on a flat boundary and, despite the presence of the …