A numerical tool for the design of foam-like microstructures with customized heat conduction properties is presented in this paper. The spatial variation of the local material properties is achieved via the optimization of the spatial distribution of the gas cells. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used for this purpose. Although very effective and versatile GAs are computationally expensive. This problem is tackled in two ways here: a Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method algorithm is used for the thermal analysis of the microstructures, and the GA is implemented in parallel using a cluster of PCs. Two examples illustrate the performance of the developped implementation.Fil: Dondero, Marco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técn...
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One of the largest problems facing the world today is energy. Not only does much of the world use no...
Foams made of aluminum or aluminum alloys are used in many application areas, e.g. as heat exchanger...
In recent decades, finite element (FE) techniques have been extensively used for predicting effectiv...
This paper introduces a numerical methodology for the design of ran- dom micro-heterogeneous materia...
This work introduces a numerical methodology for the computation of the effective thermal conductivi...
185 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.In this work, we propose to d...
This paper presents a computational technique for the topological design of microstructures for func...
Biomimetic microvascular materials are increasingly considered for a variety of autonomic healing, c...
In this paper we illustrate the use of a Genetic Algorithm (GA), available within a general optimisa...
Metallic foams or sponges are materials with a cell structure suitable for many industrial applicati...
International audienceThis paper presents a way of solving the classical area (volume)-to-point heat...
The objective of this research is to develop a robust methodology for the design of functionally gra...
An inverse boundary element method is developed to characterize the spatially dependent conductivity...
This paper presents a full set of numerical methods for predicting the effective thermal conductivit...
International audienceThe effects of microstructure on the thermal conductivity of open-cell structu...
One of the largest problems facing the world today is energy. Not only does much of the world use no...
Foams made of aluminum or aluminum alloys are used in many application areas, e.g. as heat exchanger...
In recent decades, finite element (FE) techniques have been extensively used for predicting effectiv...