Journal
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 112, Issue -, Pages 841-854Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.10.134
Keywords
Topology optimization; Conjugate heat transfer; Heat conduction; Fluid flows; Design
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Topology optimization (TO) is a promising numerical technique for designing optimal engineering designs in many industrial applications. It is expected that it might become an unavoidable engineering tool for many new rising technologies such as the additive manufacturing or metal 3D printing as addressed recently in the literature. During the last fifteen years, several TO methods have been developed for optimizing thermal systems based on conductive, convective and conjugate heat transfer. These numerical methods and tools are dispersed in the literature, and there are no enough comparisons between them which makes one doubts their real capabilities in finding really optimal designs. This paper presents a review about TO design methods that have been developed during the last 15-20 years to design optimal heat transfer systems. Each numerical method is presented briefly with an emphasize on its advantages, disadvantages, limitations and perspectives. Finally, this review shows that TO today is not yet a robust numerical design technique for finding optimal designs of thermal systems. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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