4 ms·
A simple Google Image Search for "fractal 3d print heat exchanger" yields ample prior art.
by beambot 4y ago
A simple Google Image Search for "fractal 3d print heat exchanger" yields ample prior art.
- zardo 4y agoIt really should be denied simply on the requirement that it not be obvious to a practitioner in the relevant field.
- defrost 4y agoFractal branching increasing surface area while reducing sub unit cross sections for increased heat exchange efficiency was obvious to practitioners in the field in the 1980s. That's when the Mandelbrot book(s) hit the mainstream in mathematics and engineering following his coining of the word in 1975. As an undergraduate at the time I can attest such ideas were extensively discussed, there are many people with notebooks from the time sketching out notions of practical and impractical applications and further study in multiple dimensions. Relationships between fractal branching, leafs and fluid exchange (be the fluid heat or CO2 or reactants) have been sketched out diagrammatically and analytically ad nauseam in the time since.