SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF COOLING CHANNELS USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Authors
VONWOLFERSDORF J ACHERMANN E WEIGAND B
Citation
J. Vonwolfersdorf et al., SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF COOLING CHANNELS USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS, Journal of heat transfer, 119(2), 1997, pp. 380-388
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Mechanical",Thermodynamics
Journal title
Journal of heat transfer → ACNP
ISSN journal
00221481
Volume
119
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
380 - 388
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1481(1997)119:2<380:SOOCCU>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A shape optimization method for convective cooling channels within a t wo-dimensional heat conduction region is presented. This method combin es genetic algorithms with a point heat sink approach that is used to model thp heat removal of the cooling channels during the optimization process, The method can be easily combined with the Finite Element Me thod (FEM) for the calculation of the optimized temperature field dist ribution.