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oapen-20.500.12657-492922021-11-23T14:00:33Z Chapter Potentials and Challenges of Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Heat Exchanger Scheithauer, Uwe Kordaß, Richard Noack, Kevin F. Eichenauer, Martin Hartmann, Mathias Abel, Johannes Ganzer, Gregor Lordick, Daniel additive manufacturing, computer-aided design, flow simulation, metals, ceramics, fractal geometry bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBC Engineering: general The rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enables a radical paradigm shift in the construction of heat exchangers. In place of a layout limited to the use of planar or tubular starting materials, heat exchangers can now be optimized, reflecting their function and application in a particular environment. The complexity of form is no longer a restriction but a quality. Instead of brazing elements, resulting in rather inflexible standard components prone to leakages, with AM, we finally can create seamless integrated and custom solutions from monolithic material. To address AM for heat exchangers we both focus on the processes, materials, and connections as well as on the construction abilities within certain modeling and simulation tools. AM is not the total loss of restrictions. Depending on the processes used, delicate constraints have to be considered. But on the other hand, we can access materials, which can operate in a much wider heat range. It is evident that conventional modeling techniques cannot match the requirements of a flexible and adaptive form finding. Instead, we exploit biomimetic and mathematical approaches with parametric modeling. This results in unseen configurations and pushes the limits of how we should think about heat exchangers today. 2021-06-02T10:11:32Z 2021-06-02T10:11:32Z 2019 chapter ONIX_20210602_10.5772/intechopen.80010_406 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49292 eng application/pdf n/a 63132.pdf InTechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.80010 10.5772/intechopen.80010 09f6769d-48ed-467d-b150-4cf2680656a1 H2020-FoF-2015 678503 open access
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The rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enables a radical paradigm shift in the construction of heat exchangers. In place of a layout limited to the use of planar or tubular starting materials, heat exchangers can now be optimized, reflecting their function and application in a particular environment. The complexity of form is no longer a restriction but a quality. Instead of brazing elements, resulting in rather inflexible standard components prone to leakages, with AM, we finally can create seamless integrated and custom solutions from monolithic material. To address AM for heat exchangers we both focus on the processes, materials, and connections as well as on the construction abilities within certain modeling and simulation tools. AM is not the total loss of restrictions. Depending on the processes used, delicate constraints have to be considered. But on the other hand, we can access materials, which can operate in a much wider heat range. It is evident that conventional modeling techniques cannot match the requirements of a flexible and adaptive form finding. Instead, we exploit biomimetic and mathematical approaches with parametric modeling. This results in unseen configurations and pushes the limits of how we should think about heat exchangers today.
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