Temperature-Constrained Topology Optimization of Transient Heat Conduction Problems

Abstract

A regional temperature measure model is constructed to obtain a small number of temperature constraints for local transient temperature control. The temperature sensitivity is derived using the adjoint variable method. The multiple temperature criteria and three-phase topology optimization are further investigated for transient heat conduction design. The material layout design of transient heat conduction is replaced by a static optimization problem, which is subsequently solved by the method of moving asymptotes. Finally, several numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the proposed topology optimization for transient heat conduction problems.