Leaf vein-inspired bionic design method for heat exchanger infilled with graded lattice structure

Abstract

Due to its excellent performance and high design freedom, the lattice structure has shown excellent capabilities and considerable potential in aerospace and other fields. This paper proposes a method to map the biometric model to the lattice structure. Taking leaf veins as bionic objects, they are used to generate a bionic design with a gradient lattice structure to improve the performance of a heat exchanger. In order to achieve the above goals, this article also proposes a leaf vein model and a mapping method that combine the leaf vein model with the lattice structure. A series of transient thermal finite element simulations was conducted to evaluate and compare the heat dissipation performance of different designs. The analysis results show that the combination of the bionic design and the lattice structure effectively improves the heat dissipation performance of the lattice structure heat exchanger. The results indicate that the application of bionic design in lattice structure design has feasibility and predictable potential.