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OPTIMAL GEOMETRY IN A SIMPLE MODEL OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL HEAT TRANSFER

<p>This investigation is motivated by the problem of optimal design of cooling elements in modern battery systems used in hybrid/electric vehicles. We consider a simple model of two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction generated by a prescribed distribution of heat sources and involving a one-dimensional cooling element represented by a closed contour. The problem consists in finding an optimal shape of the cooling element which will ensure that the temperature in a given region is close (in the least squares sense) to some prescribed distribution. We formulate this problem as PDE-constrained optimization and use methods of the shape-differential calculus to obtain the first-order optimality conditions characterizing the locally optimal shapes of the contour. These optimal shapes are then found numerically using the conjugate gradient method where the shape gradients are conveniently computed based on adjoint equations. A number of computational aspects of the proposed approach is discussed and optimization results obtained in several test problems are presented.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/10153
Date10 1900
CreatorsPeng, Xiaohui
ContributorsProtas, Bartosz, David Lozinski and Nicholas Kevlahan, David Lozinski and Nicholas Kevlahan, Mathematics and Statistics
Source SetsMcMaster University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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