What Is the Optimal Shape of a Fin for One-Dimensional Heat Conduction?
What Is the Optimal Shape of a Fin for One-Dimensional Heat Conduction?
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 fins. The temperature along a fin in the stationary regime is modeled by a one-dimensional Sturm--Liouville equation whose coefficients strongly depend on its geometrical features. …