Elastic buckling is an instability phenomenon that can occur if a slender and thin plate is subjected to axial compression. An important characteristic of the buckling is that the instability may occur at a stress level ...

The Light Resin Transfer Molding (LRTM) is a manufacturing process where a closed mold pre-loaded with a porous fibrous preform is filled by a liquid resin injected through an empty channel (without porous medium) which ...

The present paper applies Constructal Design to optimize the geometry of a Yshaped negative fin that intrudes a solid conducting wall with heat generation. The main goal is the minimization of the thermal global resistance ...

Este estudo numérico utiliza o método Constructal Design para reduzir os pontos quentes de um sólido com geração de calor uniforme por unidade de volume através da transferência de calor por condução. A ideia é facilitar ...

In this work a tubular array (four tubes) subjected to a transverse forced flow is analyzed in terms of thermal performance. Taking into account that there are two main assembles usually used in heat exchanger ...

The present paper shows a numerical study concerned with the geometrical optimization of a vortex tube device by means of Constructal Design for several inlet stagnation pressures. In the present study, it is evaluated a ...

This paper applies Constructal design to study the geometry of a X-shaped cavity that penetrates into a solid conductive wall. The objective is minimizing the dimensionless maximal excess of temperature between the solid ...

This work applies Constructal design to study numerically the geometry of cavities bathed by a fluid with constant heat transfer coefficient that are intruded into a cylindrical solid body. The objective is to minimize the ...

This paper applies constructal design to study the geometry of a X-shaped cavity that penetrates into a solid conducting wall. The objective is to minimize the maximal dimensionless excess of temperature between the solid ...

This paper applies constructal design to study a non-uniform X-shaped cavity that penetrates a conductive solid wall. The goal is to minimize the maximal dimensionless excess of temperature between the solid body and cavity. ...

Steel plates are used in a great variety of engineering applications, such as deck and bottom of ship structures, and platforms of offshore structures. Cutouts are often provided in plate elements for inspection, ...

This paper considers the numerical optimization of a T-shaped assembly of fins cooling a cylindrical solid body. The objective is to minimize the maximum excess of temperature between the solid cylindrical body and the ...

Este artigo considera o design constructal de um corpo cilíndrico sólido arrefecido por duas aletas na forma T. O objetivo é minimizar o máximo excesso de temperatura entre o corpo cilíndrico e sólido a temperatura ambiente. ...

Elastic buckling is an instability phenomenon that can occur if a slender and thin-walled plate is subjected to axial compressive load. It is well known that the presence of holes in structural plate elements is almost ...

The present work studies the geometric optimization of a body submitted to intense heat flux. The body to be optimized is refrigerated by a ducts system whose circulating fluid will remove the heat. The optimization method ...

The Earth-Air Heat Exchanger (EAHE) is a device used to improve the thermal condition of built environments, allowing the reduction of electrical energy consumption of traditional air conditioner systems. Fundamentally, ...

In the present work two different arrangements of vascular channels are studied numerically and their geometry is optimized by means of Constructal Design. The main purpose is to seek for the best geometry which minimizes ...

As placas enrijecidas são muito utilizadas em estruturas navais. Quando estas estruturas estão sob forte ação de cargas de flexão, é necessário que os reforços contribuam para a redução da deflexão da placa. O Método de ...

O presente trabalho numérico estuda o arranjo triangular de cilindros submetidos a escoamentos transientes, bi-dimensionais, incompressíveis, laminares e com convecção forçada por meios do método Constructal Design. As ...

The present paper presents a two-dimensional numerical study about the geometric optimization of an ocean Wave Energy Converter (WEC) into electrical energy that has as operational principal the Oscillating Water Column ...