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What is the optimal shape of a fin for one dimensional heat conduction?

Gilles Marck
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Grégoire Nadin
Yannick Privat

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This article is concerned with the shape of small devices used to control the heat flowing between a solid and a fluid phase, usually called \textsl{fin}. The temperature along a fin in stationary regime is modeled by a one-dimensional Sturm-Liouville equation whose coefficients strongly depend on its geometrical features. We are interested in the following issue: is there any optimal shape maximizing the heat flux at the inlet of the fin? Two relevant constraints are examined, by imposing either its volume or its surface, and analytical nonexistence results are proved for both problems. Furthermore, using specific perturbations, we explicitly compute the optimal values and construct maximizing sequences. We show in particular that the optimal heat flux at the inlet is infinite in the first case and finite in the second one. Finally, we provide several extensions of these results for more general models of heat conduction, as well as several numerical illustrations.
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hal-00871135 , version 1 (08-10-2013)
hal-00871135 , version 2 (30-04-2014)

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Gilles Marck, Grégoire Nadin, Yannick Privat. What is the optimal shape of a fin for one dimensional heat conduction?. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2014, 74 (4), pp.1194--1218. ⟨10.1137/130941377⟩. ⟨hal-00871135v2⟩
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