Optimization of Arrangements of Heat-Storage Bricks in a Regenerative Combustion System by Tree Search

When there are several different types of heat-storage ceramic bricks that can be arranged in the fix-bed heat regenerators of a regenerative combustion system, one must find an optimal arrangement of these bricks, of possibly different types, in the fix-bed heat regenerators of a regenerative combustion system. It seems impractical to evaluate the efficiency of each of all the possible arrangements of heat-storage ceramic bricks, in the fix-bed heat regenerators of a rege-nerative combustion system, by 3-dimensional CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations on Ansys Fluent. In this article, we present an efficient tree search method to tackle this optimization problem.