Tree-network structure generation for heat conduction by cellular automaton

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 376-386

  Boichot, Raphaël ^a   Luo, Lingai ^a   Fan, Yilin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

"Area to point" problem; Cellular automaton; Constructal; Heat conduction; Tree network

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT SINKS; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

''AREA-TO-POINT'' PROBLEM; CONDUCTIVITY RATIOS; CONSTRUCTAL; EQUIPARTITION; HIGH CONDUCTIVITIES; INITIAL SHAPES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; THERMAL CONDUCTANCES; TREE-NETWORK;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 56349109026     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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