TY - JOUR
TI - Study on ice slurry flow characteristics based on genetic algorithm
AU - Hao Shuai
AU - Zhou Wenjie
AU - Wang Jiajun
AU - Xia Yudong
AU - Jiangzhou Shu
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2022
VL - 26
IS - 5
SP - 3965
EP - 3973
PT - Article
AB - Ice slurry is a solid-liquid phase fluid consisting of a liquid solution and ice particles. It is widely used in life and engineering because of its excellent cold-carrying capacity. In this paper, a genetic algorithm is used to optimize the ice slurry flow with the minimum pumping power as the objective function. The results show that the genetic algorithm can be effectively applied to the optimization of ice slurry flow characteristics within reasonable parameters. In addition, the transport characteristics of ice slurry are also analyzed. The selection of suitable ice mass fraction values under different working conditions can make the transport characteristics optimal.