Thermoelectric devices (TEs) can achieve direct conversion of heat and electricity by semiconductor materials, coupling of heat transfer and electric conduction is important to accurately predict the performance of TEs. This paper develops a general, three-dimensional numerical model of TEs with...

This paper develops an inverse problem approach to optimize the geometric structure of TECs (thermoelectric coolers). The approach integrates a complete multi-physics TEC model and a simplified conjugate-gradient method. The present TEC model couples the heat and electrical conductions and...