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Micro-channel cooling initially aiming at small-sized high-power integrated circuits is being transferred to the field of high energy physics. Today`s prospects of micro-fabricating silicon opens a door to a more direct cooling of detector…
A topology optimization problem in a phase field setting is considered to obtain rigid structures, which are resilient to external forces and constructable with additive manufacturing. Hence, large deformations of overhangs due to gravity…
Inverse problems associated with designing cylindrical thermal cloaking shells are studied. Using the optimization method these inverse problems are reduced to corresponding control problems in which the diagonal components of diagonal in…
This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…
A topology optimization approach for designing large deformation contact-aided shape morphing compliant mechanisms is presented. Such mechanisms can be used in varying operating conditions. Design domains are described by regular hexagonal…
Over the past decades, the performance design of closed-chain legged mechanisms (CLMs) has not been adequately addressed. Most existing design methodologies have predominantly relied on trajectory synthesis, which inadvertently prioritizes…
This paper demonstrates the computational design of soft elastomeric pneumatic actuators using nonlinear topology optimization. An existing density- and porohyperelasticity-based topology optimization framework was extended from 2D to 3D…
Phase change materials (PCMs) hold considerable promise for thermal energy storage applications. However, designing a PCM system to meet specific performance presents a formidable challenge, given the intricate influence of multiple factors…
The alternating current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem is critical to power system operations and planning, but it is generally hard to solve due to its nonconvex and large-scale nature. This paper proposes a scalable decomposition…
Prismatic sandwich panels fabricated from metals offer a compelling alternative to more traditional panels across diverse industries, primarily due to their superior strength-to-weight ratio. Although several core types were proposed in the…
High power density systems require efficient cooling to maintain their thermal performance. Despite this, as systems get larger and more complex, human practice and insight may not suffice to determine the desired thermal management system…
Within the wireless mesh network, a bottleneck problem arises as the number of concurrent traffic flows (NCTF) increases over a single common control channel, as it is for most conventional networks. To alleviate this problem, this paper…
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 objective of this study is to establish a gradient-free topology optimization framework that facilitates more global solution searches to avoid entrapping in undesirable local optima, especially in problems with strong non-linearity.…
In recent years, topology optimization has been developed sufficiently and many researchers have concentrated on enhancing to computationally numerical algorithms for computational effectiveness of this method. Along with the development of…
Two-scale topology optimization, combined with the design of microstructure families with a broad range of effective material parameters, is increasingly widely used in many fabrication applications to achieve a target deformation behavior…
Leveraging the latent heat of phase change materials (PCMs) can reduce the peak temperatures and transient variations in temperature in electronic devices. But as the power levels increase, the thermal conduction pathway from the heat…
Classical gradient-based density topology optimization is adapted for method-of-moments numerical modeling to design a conductor-based system attaining the minimal antenna Q-factor evaluated via an energy stored operator. Standard topology…
In this work we propose a method to perform optimization on manifolds. We assume to have an objective function $f$ defined on a manifold and think of it as the potential energy of a mechanical system. By adding a momentum-dependent kinetic…
This paper introduces a simple formulation for topology optimization problems ensuring manufacturability by machining. The method distinguishes itself from existing methods by using the advection-diffusion equation with Robin boundary…