The project was funded by the European Commission through a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. The project aimed to develop novel homogenisation-based models for fast and efficient computational design of liquid-cooled heat sinks and heat exchangers.
For microchannel heat sinks, the range of scales is large. The channels are on the order of micrometers and the heat sink area is on the order of centimeters. Traditionally this would require very fine meshes with an inherently huge computational cost. Our homogenisation-based models reduce this computational cost by approximately X orders of magnitude, allowing very fast topology optimisation of microchannel heat sinks. The basic method has been demonstrated using two so-called dehomogenisation approaches, the and the . Lastly, the method was extended toContact: Associate professor,
