Coordinate search method to optimize heat flow on a constructal disc

With the increasing accessibility of high performance computing power to engineers in the recent years, we need methods to utilize this power to help in the generation of optimal industrial designs. For this purpose, a constructal algorithm has been implemented. Constructal theory is a new way of searching for the optimum geometry of a flow system. The constructal principle says that the form of a system is a result of a struggle for better performance amongst the existence of constraints on the system. Different systems need different constructal configuration searches based on their performance objectives and constraints. In this work, the numerical optimization method called the Coordinate Search Method has been made use of in order to perform the constructal configuration search to find the optimal heat conducting channel design on a disc. This work serves as the first step in the development of a General Constructal Designer Tool where the input to the tool will be the description of the flow system and the tool will find the optimal flow configurations for the system. This interdisciplinary work makes use of the Coordinate Search Method, Constructal Theory, and Heat Transfer concepts.;Keywords: optimization, constructal theory.