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Design decisions in urban planning have to be made with particular carefulness as the resulting constraints are binding for the whole architectural design that follows. In this context, investigating and optimizing the airflow in urban…
The convective heat transfer and flow behavior of graphene-water nanofluids are studied experimentally by focusing on transitional flow. Graphene-water nanofluids with different particle mass fractions (0.025, 0.1 and 0.2%) are produced…
This paper presents a topology optimization approach for the surface flows on variable design domains. Via this approach, the matching between the pattern of a surface flow and the 2-manifold used to define the pattern can be optimized,…
The main objective of the present study is to investigate the effect of adding nanoparticles at different concentrations and sizes to boiling distilled water on the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer performance. The major studied…
In the presented study, a pipe penalization approach for the economic topology optimization of District Heating Networks is proposed, drawing inspiration from density-based topology optimization. For District Heating Networks, the upfront…
Topology optimization (TopOpt) is a mathematical-driven design procedure to realize optimal material architectures. This procedure is often used to automate the design of devices involving flow through porous media, such as micro-fluidic…
Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow in a channel with one rigid and one viscoelastic wall are performed. An Eulerian-Eulerian model is adopted with a level-set approach to identify the fluid-compliant material interface. Focus is…
Technical components are usually well optimized. However, simply combining these optimized components in a technical system does not necessarily lead to optimal systems. Therefore, focusing on a system perspective reveals new potential for…
Heat exchangers are critical components in a wide range of engineering applications, from energy systems to chemical processing, where efficient thermal management is essential. The design objectives for heat exchangers include maximizing…
The use of CO2 as a natural refrigerant in data center cooling, oil recovery and in CO2 capture and storage which is gaining traction in recent years involves heat transfer between CO2 and the base fluid. A need arises to improve the…
Flow patterns and heat transfer inside mini twisted oval tubes (TOTs) heated by constant-temperature walls are numerically investigated. Different configurations of tubes are simulated using water as the working fluid with…
In this research, multi-physics topology optimization is employed to achieve the detailed design of a lightweight porous linear actuation mechanism that harnesses energy through laser activation. A multiscale topology optimization…
This paper presents a density-based topology optimization method for designing three-dimensional (3D) compliant mechanisms and loadbearing structures with design-dependent pressure loading. Instead of interface-tracking techniques, the…
A one-dimensional multi-phase flow model for thermomagnetically pumped ferrofluid with heat transfer is proposed. The thermodynamic model is a combination of a simplified particle model and thermodynamic equations of state for the base…
Mist/air two-phase flow is a promising cooling technique for many applications such as internal cooling of gas turbine blades. A significant enhancement of heat transfer can be achieved with a low mass fraction of droplets by utilizing the…
We design heat exchangers using level-set method based topology optimization. The heat exchange between two fluids in separate channels is maximized while constraining the pressure drop across each channel. The flow is modeled by an…
We propose an optimal operation control strategy for an electro-thermal microgrid. Compared to existing work, our approach increases flexibility by operating the thermal network with variable flow temperatures and in that way explicitly…
I propose a design strategy to enhance the performance of heat engine via absorption of thermal energy from the channel region. The absorption of thermal energy can be actuated by inelastic processes and may be accomplished by an energy…
Droplet wicking and evaporation in porous nanochannels is experimentally studied on a heated surface at temperatures ranging from 35oC to 90oC. The fabricated geometry consists of cross-connected nanochannels of height 728 nm with…
This study presents a generative optimization framework based on a guided denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) that leverages surrogate gradients to generate heat sink designs minimizing pressure drop while maintaining surface…