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Efficiently enhancing heat conduction through optimized distribution of a limited quantity of high thermal conductivity material is paramount in cooling electronic devices and numerous other applications. This paper introduces a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bo Zhang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

We perform non-equilibrium simulations to study heat conduction in two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasmas. Temperature gradients are established by heating one part of the otherwise equilibrium system to a higher temperature. Heat…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lu-Jing Hou , Alexander Piel

Shape optimization models with one or more shapes are considered in this chapter. Of particular interest for applications are problems in which where a so-called shape functional is constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

In this article, the shape optimization of a linear elastic body subject to frictional (Tresca) contact is investigated. Due to the projection operators involved in the formulation of the contact problem, the solution is not shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas , Jean Deteix

We study an optimization problem related to the approximation of given data by a linear combination of transformed modes. In the simplest case, the optimization problem reduces to a minimization problem well-studied in the context of proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Felix Black , Philipp Schulze , Benjamin Unger

Understanding heat transfer in composite materials is essential for optimizing their performance in critical applications across industries such as aerospace, automotive, renewable energy, and construction. This review offers a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Mohammad Alaghemandi , Morgan Alamandi

In this paper, we apply the framework of optimal transport to the formulation of optimal design problems. By considering the Wasserstein space as a set of design variables, we associate each probability measure with a shape configuration of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Fumiya Okazaki , Takayuki Yamada

This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

This paper is concerned with a numerical simulation of shape optimization in a two-dimensional viscous incompressible flow governed by Navier--Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions containing the pressure. The minimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma

This paper studies a two-material optimal design problem for the time-averaged duality pairing between a (possibly time-dependent) heat source and the weak solution of an initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Kei Matsushima , Tomoyuki Oka

A method for density-based topology optimization of heat exchangers with two fluids is proposed. The goal of the optimization process is to maximize the heat transfer from one fluid to the other, under maximum pressure drop constraints for…

We develop an optimization-based approach to the problem of reconstructing temperature-dependent material properties in complex thermo-fluid systems described by the equations for the conservation of mass, momentum and energy. Our goal is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-11 Vladislav Bukshtynov , Bartosz Protas

This paper investigates shape optimization problems in the context of heat transfer, with a focus on the stability and non-optimality of round domains under Robin boundary conditions. Using the flow approach and Steklov eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Qinfeng Li , Hang Yang

A general method for computing derivatives of solution fields and other simulation outputs, with respect to arbitrary input quantities, is proposed. The method of automatic differentiation is used to carry out differentiation and propagate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Christopher T. DeGroot

We present a cut finite element method for shape optimization in the case of linear elasticity. The elastic domain is defined by a level-set function, and the evolution of the domain is obtained by moving the level-set along a velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

This paper addresses optimal design problems governed by multi-state stationary diffusion equations, aiming at the simultaneous optimization of the domain shape and the distribution of two isotropic materials in prescribed proportions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Marko Erceg , Petar Kunštek , Marko Vrdoljak

The layout optimization of the heat conduction is essential during design in engineering, especially for thermal sensible products. When the optimization algorithm iteratively evaluates different loading cases, the traditional numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Hao Ma , Yang Sun , Mario Chiarelli

In this paper we describe a spatial decomposition of the thermal conductivity, what we name "site-projected thermal conductivity", a gauge of the thermal conduction activity at each site. The method is based on the Green-Kubo formula and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 C. Ugwumadu , A. Gautam , Y. G. Lee , D. A. Drabold

Understanding the generation mechanism of the heating flux is essential for the design of hypersonic vehicles. We proposed a novel formula to decompose the heat flux coefficient into the contributions of different terms by integrating the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-22 Dong Sun , Qilong Guo , Xianxu Yuan , Haoyuan Zhang , Chen Li , Pengxin Liu

Shape optimization based on surface gradients and the Hadarmard-form is considered for a compressible viscous fluid. Special attention is given to the difference between the 'function composition' approach involving local shape derivatives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Matthias Sonntag , Stephan Schmidt , Nicolas R. Gauger