Utilization of Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Heat Exchangers
Abstract
Additive manufacturing is rapidly being explored as a means to achieve new design paradigms while enabling an effective means for production. A particular field of interest is heat exchangers. Through additive manufacturing, this family of components can be produced more directly as opposed to the traditional manufacturing and assembly techniques used to create heat exchangers. Based on this, research was conducted at the Applied Research Laboratory and the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition at The Pennsylvania State University to determine the viability of additive manufacturing for producing aerospace heat exchangers for naval air platforms. This report considers various heat exchanger types and designs, designs that may be applicable to additive manufacturing, conceptualization of a design for a liquid-gas heat exchanger that may be produced using additive manufacturing techniques, a manufacturing demonstration of such a design, and the evaluation of the heat dissipation characteristics of the notional heat exchanger.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 29, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1010878
Entities
People
- A. Rowen
- C. Dickman
- K. Meinert
- R. Martukanitz
- Z. Gobetz
Organizations
- Pennsylvania State University