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Multi-material robust topology optimization for high-performance heat exchangers
Received date: 2026-01-23
Revised date: 2026-06-03
Online published: 2026-09-18
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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12572141 and 12272300) and the State Key Laboratory of Clean and Efficient Turbomachinery Power Equipment of China (No. DEC8300CG202428759A1228217)
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To design an efficient and robust integrated heat exchanger configuration, this work develops a multi-material robust topology optimization (RTO) model, and simultaneously considers the distribution of solid, fluid, and metal foam. In the proposed RTO model, the inlet flow velocity and the metal foam porosity are both treated as random variables, while two pseudo-density fields function as design variables. The objective is to maximize both the heat exchange performance mean and thermal robustness, subject to the constraints that the flow dissipation mean
Zelin WANG , Zhenzhou LU , Yizhou CHEN , Jiangji QU , Xingcheng WANG . Multi-material robust topology optimization for high-performance heat exchangers[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2026 , 47(9) : 2089 -2108 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-026-3425-7
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