TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-physics design of microvascular materials for active cooling applications
AU - Aragón, Alejandro M.
AU - Smith, Kyle J.
AU - Geubelle, Philippe H.
AU - White, Scott R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge support from AFOSR (MURI Grant No. F49550-05-1-0346) and thank Prof. Arne J. Pearlstein from the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois for providing valuable insight on the convective heat transfer problems.
PY - 2011/6/10
Y1 - 2011/6/10
N2 - This paper describes a framework for the design of microvascular polymeric components for active cooling applications. The design of the embedded networks involves complex and competing objectives that are associated with various physical processes. The optimization tool includes a PDE solver based on advanced finite element techniques coupled to a multi-objective constrained genetic algorithm. The resulting Pareto-optimal fronts are investigated in the optimization of these materials for void volume fraction, flow efficiency, maximum temperature, and surface convection objective functions.
AB - This paper describes a framework for the design of microvascular polymeric components for active cooling applications. The design of the embedded networks involves complex and competing objectives that are associated with various physical processes. The optimization tool includes a PDE solver based on advanced finite element techniques coupled to a multi-objective constrained genetic algorithm. The resulting Pareto-optimal fronts are investigated in the optimization of these materials for void volume fraction, flow efficiency, maximum temperature, and surface convection objective functions.
KW - Active cooling
KW - Microvascular materials
KW - Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms
KW - Multi-physics optimization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.03.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.03.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955470571
VL - 230
SP - 5178
EP - 5198
JO - Journal of Computational Physics
JF - Journal of Computational Physics
SN - 0021-9991
IS - 13
ER -