On the optimal design of wall-to-wall heat transport

DOI10.1002/CPA.21832zbMATH Open1434.76036arXiv1712.08945OpenAlexW2775913454MaRDI QIDQ5204886FDOQ5204886

Authors: Ian Tobasco, Charles R. Doering 

Publication date: 5 December 2019

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the problem of optimizing heat transport through an incompressible fluid layer. Modeling passive scalar transport by advection-diffusion, we maximize the mean rate of total transport by a divergence-free velocity field. Subject to various boundary conditions and intensity constraints, we prove that the maximal rate of transport scales linearly in the r.m.s. kinetic energy and, up to possible logarithmic corrections, as the $1/3$rd power of the mean enstrophy in the advective regime. This makes rigorous a previous prediction on the near optimality of convection rolls for energy-constrained transport. Optimal designs for enstrophy-constrained transport are significantly more difficult to describe: we introduce a "branching" flow design with an unbounded number of degrees of freedom and prove it achieves nearly optimal transport. The main technical tool behind these results is a variational principle for evaluating the transport of candidate designs. The principle admits dual formulations for bounding transport from above and below. While the upper bound is closely related to the "background method", the lower bound reveals a connection between the optimal design problems considered herein and other apparently related model problems from mathematical materials science. These connections serve to motivate designs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08945

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zbMATH Keywords

variational problemadvection-diffusion equationNusselt numberRayleigh-Benard convectionconditional optimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flow control and optimization for incompressible viscous fluids (76D55) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19) Optimization problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M50)

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