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This study proposes a level set-based topology optimization method for designing acoustic structures with viscous and thermal boundary layers in perspective. Acoustic waves propagating in a narrow channel are damped by viscous and thermal…
This paper demonstrates the application of the density-based topology optimisation approach for the design of heat sinks and micropumps based on natural convection effects. The problems are modelled under the assumptions of steady-state…
This study presents an automated topology optimization framework for designing pentamode acoustic metamaterials. It provides precise control over the material effective acoustic properties while minimizing the shear modulus to achieve…
The concept of concurrent material and structure optimization aims at alleviating the computational discovery of optimum microstructure configurations in multiphase hierarchical systems, whose macroscale behavior is governed by their…
Topology optimization of microstructures plays a critical role in optimizing functional performance across diverse engineering applications. While metamaterials with enhanced mechanical properties -- such as hyperelasticity, energy…
We investigate multi-physical topology optimization for microfluidic mixers employing the phase-field model. The optimization problem is formulated using a modified Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional. To eliminate fluid blockage in…
The muon collider has the potential to be a powerful tool for the exploration of frontiers in particle physics. In order to reach high luminosity, the 6D emittance of the muon beam needs to be reduced by several orders of magnitude. The…
In topology optimization, the state of structures is typically obtained by numerically evaluating a discretized PDE-based model. The degrees of freedom of such a model can be partitioned in free and prescribed sets to define the boundary…
In this paper, we present a topology optimization (TO) framework to simultaneously optimize the matrix topology and fiber distribution of functionally graded continuous fiber-reinforced composites (FRC). Current approaches in density-based…
This paper presents Space-Time MultiGrid (STMG) methods which are suitable for performing topology optimisation of transient heat conduction problems. The proposed methods use a pointwise smoother and uniform Cartesian space-time meshes.…
This paper presents a novel space-time topology optimisation framework for time-dependent thermal conduction problems, aiming to significantly reduce the time-to-solution. By treating time as an additional spatial dimension, we discretise…
While parallel microchannel based cooling systems have been around for quite a period of time, employing the same and incorporating them for near active cooling of microelectronic devices is yet to be implemented and the implications of the…
Time-varying meshes, characterized by dynamic connectivity and varying vertex counts, hold significant promise for applications such as augmented reality. However, their practical utilization remains challenging due to the substantial data…
In this article, a compliance minimisation scheme for designing spatially varying orthotropic porous structures is proposed. With the utilisation of conformal mapping, the porous structures here can be generated by two controlling field…
Metasurfaces advanced the field of optics by reducing the thickness of optical components and merging multiple functionalities into a single layer device. However, this generally comes with a reduction in performance, especially for…
We propose a fluid-based topology optimization methodology for convective heat-transfer problems that can manage an extensive number of design variables, enabling the fine geometric features required for the next generation of…
This paper extends the nonsmooth Relaxed Variational Approach (RVA) to topology optimization, proposed by the authors in a preceding work, to the solution of thermal optimization problems. First, the RVA topology optimization method is…
Topology optimization of modular structures and mechanisms enables balancing the performance of automatically-generated individualized designs, as required by Industry 4.0, with enhanced sustainability by means of component reuse. For…
Topology optimization is an essential tool in computational engineering, for example, to improve the design and efficiency of flow channels. At the same time, Ising machines, including digital or quantum annealers, have been used as…
Network-on-chip (NoC) architectures have been proposed as a promising alternative to classical bus-based communication architectures. In this paper, we propose a two phases framework to solve application-specific NoCs topology generation…