Tree-shaped flow structures designed by minimizing path lengths

DOI10.1016/S0017-9310(02)00051-0MaRDI QIDQ1614604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors W. Wechsatol, S. Lorente, A. Bejan

Publication date 8 September 2002

Published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0017-9310(02)00051-0

zbMATH Keywords

minimal path lengthnetwork optimizationtree-shaped flow structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flow control and optimization for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B75) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Optimization problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M50)

Review text

The auhtors construct a tree-shaped flow structures which connect sources or sinks with lines, surfaces and volumes. Their solutions satisfy the restriction that the length of the flow path in the elemental volume is minimal. Starting from the simplest cases toward more complex structures, the authors construct flow networks between one point and a straight line, a plane, a circle and its center, and between one point and many points distributed over an area. An analysis of optimality is made for a laminar flow.

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