Thermal resistance minimization of a fin-and-porous-medium heat sink with evolutionary algorithms

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 349-366

  Tye Gingras, Maxime ^a   Gosselin, Louis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; ASPECT RATIO; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; COPPER; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEALTH; HEAT SINKS; HEAT STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS;

(1+1) EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; (O-SEC.-BUTYLDITHIOCARBONATIO-S ,S') COPPER; COOLING PERFORMANCE; DARCY LAW; DESIGN VARIABLES; HOT-SPOT TEMPERATURE (HST); LOCAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM (LOTHEQ); MASS REDUCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; OUTLET AIR; POROUS LAYERS; POROUS MEDIUMS; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SPECIAL FEATURES; UPPER CORNERS;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 46149107683     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780802148481     Document Type: Article

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