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Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design (Hardcover, 2013 ed.) Loot Price: R5,638
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Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Luiz A.O. Rocha, Sylvie Lorente, Adrian Bejan

Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

Luiz A.O. Rocha, Sylvie Lorente, Adrian Bejan

Series: Understanding Complex Systems

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Design happens everywhere, whether in animate objects (e.g., dendritic lung structures, bacterial colonies, and corals), inanimate patterns (river basins, beach slope, and dendritic crystals), social dynamics (pedestrian traffic flows), or engineered systems (heat dissipation in electronic circuitry). This design in nature often takes on remarkably similar patterns, which can be explained under one unifying Constructal Law. This book explores the unifying power of the Constructal Law and its applications in all domains of design generation and evolution, ranging from biology and geophysics to globalization, energy, sustainability, and security.
The Constructal Law accounts for the universal tendency of flow systems to morph into evolving configurations that provide greater and easier access over time. The Constructal Law resolves the many and contradictory ad hoc statements of optimality, end design, and destiny in nature, such as minimum and maximum entropy production and minimum and maximum flow resistance, and also explains the designs that are observed and copied in biomimetics.
"Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design" covers the fundamentals of Constructal Theory and Design, as well as presenting a variety ofstate-of-the-art applications. Experts from the biological, physical and social sciences demonstrate the unification of all design phenomena in nature, and apply this knowledge to novel designs in modern engineering, such as vascularization for self-healing and self-cooling materials for aircraft, and tree fins and cavities for heat transfer enhancement.

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Series: Understanding Complex Systems
Release date: December 2012
First published: 2013
Editors: Luiz A.O. Rocha • Sylvie Lorente • Adrian Bejan
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 330
Edition: 2013 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-5048-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > General
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Geological surface processes (geomorphology) > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Materials science > Mechanics of fluids > General
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LSN: 1-4614-5048-9
Barcode: 9781461450481

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