Multiscale optimisation algorithm for the next generation of heat exchanger

本项目的创新之处在于打造了一种**冷板替代设计框架**。**冷板**是允许电池组和微电子设备等组件**在容差范围内**运行的常见设备。它们非常重要，因为由于NetZero的监管，目前飞机工业正在向电气化和氢气转变。该项目将利用其他地方没有的多尺度方法。在热交换和所需泵压方面，该设计将**提高性能**，超过行业使用的传统“蛇形”设计。该项目还回应了从以前的合作中学到的经验教训，即设计拓扑优化的冷板的挑战。它可以实现更快的迭代，这可以被飞机制造商在他们的数字孪生框架内利用，以自动重新设计冷板，以响应系统中其他地方的变化。将小尺度响应直接耦合到有限元集成节点提供了一种**新的、可能更快的模拟流体流动的方法**。该项目是一个合作项目：伦敦帝国理工学院(ICL)的一家中小企业和分支机构TOffeeAM将与ICL合作构建软件和新设计。

The innovation of this project is to create an **alternative design framework for cold plates**. **Cold plates** are common devices allowing components such as battery packs and micro-electrical devices to **operate within tolerance**. They take high importance with the current conversion being seen in the aircraft industry towards electrification and hydrogen due to NetZero Regulation.The project will leverage multi-scale methods that are not present elsewhere. Designs will **improve performance**, in terms of thermal exchange and required pump pressure, over traditional "serpentine" designs being used by the industry.The project is also responding to lessons learned from previous collaborations regarding the challenges of designing topology optimized cold plates. It enables faster iteration which can be leveraged by airframers within their digital-twin framework to automatically re-design cold plates in response to changes elsewhere in the system. Coupling the small-scale response directly to the finite element integration nodes offers a **new and potentially much faster way to simulate fluid flow**.The project is collaborative: TOffeeAM, a SME and spin-out of Imperial College London (ICL) will collaborate with ICL to build the software and the new design.