Improved convection cooling in steady channel flows

S Alben - Physical Review Fluids, 2017 - APS
A fundamental problem in heat transfer is the convective cooling of the heated walls of a
channel. We find steady two-dimensional (2D) flows that maximize the heat removed from …

Optimal convection cooling flows in general 2D geometries

S Alben - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
We generalize a recent method for computing optimal 2D convection cooling flows in a
horizontal layer to a wide range of geometries, including those relevant for technological …