Optimal Shape Design for Heat Conduction and Convection Problems Using NURBS

Subject Areas : Analytical and Numerical Methods in Mechanical Design

Farbod Fakhrabadi ¹ , Farshad Kowsary ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2 - School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-09-21 Accepted : 2022-09-21 Published : 2022-06-01

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