Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer Theory and Application in High Performance Heat and Mass Transfer

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2004, Volume11

Issue 2

102 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JEnhHeatTransf.v11.i2

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Zai-Zhong Xia
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

Xin-Guang Cheng
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

Zhi-Xin Li
School of Aerospace, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Education Ministry Key Lab of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Zeng-Yuan Guo
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Education Ministry Key Lab of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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.

DOI: 10.1615/JEnhHeatTransf.v11.i2.20 Download article, 119-132 pages

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