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US 2020/0265178 A1Published application
Hybrid flow evaluation and optimization of thermal systems
OwnerMarc Scott HODES, Georgios KARAMANISinventors
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Abstract
An approach to optimization of a thermal system includes applying computational fluid dynamics to precompute and store data for a set of canonical structures of heat transfer elements, and then using a flow network model to optimize dimensions and structures of the heat transfer elements of a thermal system in an optimization procedure that makes use of the stored data for the canonical structures.
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A method for determining a configuration of one or more thermal transfer elements of a thermal system, the method comprising:
- accepting a lumped element representation of the thermal system, the representation including a plurality of parameters characterizing one or more thermal transfer elements and the configuration of the system;
- optimizing values of the parameters characterizing the one or more thermal transfer elements, including repeating for each of the thermal transfer elements, using the values of parameters characterizing said element to access stored data characterizing a canonical configuration corresponding to the thermal transfer element, and transforming the accessed data characterization to represent characteristics of the thermal transfer element of the thermal system;
- using the transformed data and the lumped element representation to determine fluid and heat flow characteristics of the lumped representation of the thermal system;
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- updating values of the parameters characterizing the one or more thermal transfer elements.
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