01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated System (Basics and Theory)
DUCTED HEAT EXCHANGER THERMAL AND AERODYNAMIC SHAPE OPTIMIZATION
E.J. Adler¹, A.H.R. Lamkin¹, J.R.R.A. Martins¹; ¹University of Michigan, United States
Ducted heat exchangers allow electric and fuel cell aircraft to efficiently reject waste heat. We use numerical optimization to automatically shape the duct and design the heat exchanger. The optimizer can exploit the duct and heat exchanger's coupled interaction to discover improvements that human designers may not find manually.