Thin plates are widely used in various engineering applications. In some cases, these
structural components may buckle due to compressive loads, which can be aggravated by …

The application of the Constructal Design method in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
areas is an already consecrated approach to geometrically evaluate these flow engineering …

Significant advancements in developing earth‐air heat exchanger models have been
detected in the past several decades. It is worth mentioning that this type of device takes …

Stiffened thin steel plates are structures widely employed in aeronautical, civil, naval, and
offshore engineering. Considering a practical application where a transverse uniform load …

In this article, a new multi-objective topology and size optimization framework is developed
for the joint concept–detailed design of stiffened panels. The normalized exponential …

An experimental study is conducted to investigate the influence of the design of a laboratory-
scale onshore overtopping device over the mass of water accumulated in its reservoir, and …

Present numerical work comprises the application of Constructal Design (CD) and
Simulated Annealing (SA) for the geometric optimization of a Double T-shaped cavity …

Liquid composite molding techniques are largely used to produce pieces such as truck
cabins or wind turbine blades. The liquid resin infusion processes use a network of injection …

Several stiffened plates arrangements subjected to bending were configured applying the
Constructal Design Method (CDM) and solved by Finite Element Method (FEM), aiming …

Constructal design, finite element method and exhaustive search are applied to analyze
different arrangements of steel plates with rectangular or trapezoidal stiffeners. As …