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Design of heat exchangers using a novel multiobjective free search differential evolution paradigm

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 94; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.10.066

1873-5606

Helon Vicente Hultmann Ayala, Patrick Keller, Márcia de Fátima Morais, Viviana Cocco Mariani, Leandro dos Santos Coelho, R. Venkata Rao,

Heat Transfer and Optimization

Free search (FS) is a recently proposed population-based metaheuristic algorithm, inspired from the animals' behavior. FS can be applied to real value numerical optimization problems, as well as evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence techniques. In this paper, a novel multiobjective FS approach combined with differential evolution (MOFSDE) to heat exchanger optimization is presented. Two case studies of heat exchanger design are carried out to illustrate the efficiency of the MOFSDE. Simulation results for the two multiobjective case studies using the proposed MOFSDE are compared with those obtained by using the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm, version II (NSGA-II). The results from this comparison indicate that the MOFSDE performs better than the NSGA-II. The results illustrate that MOFSDE efficiently achieves two goals of multiobjective optimization problems: to find the solutions that converge to an approximated Pareto-front which is well spread, having the advantage of no parameter tuning apart from the population size and the number of generations.