Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design

TRAMA

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 of state-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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Preface: Constructal law, design in nature, and complexityChapter 1. The Constructal Design of Humanity on the Globe, A. Bejan and S. LorenteChapter 2. Towards a Quantitative Unifying Theory of Natural Design of Flow Systems: Emergence and Evolution, A. F. MiguelChapter 3. Leaf Shapes and Venation Patterns, A. H. ReisChapter 4. Drainage Basins Evolution with Non-Erodible Regions, M. R. Errera and C. A. MarinChapter 5. Software Evolution and the Constructal Law, S. PerinChapter 6. Constructal Design of High Conductivity Inserts, J. A. Souza and J. C. OrdonezChapter 7. Constructal Design of T-shaped Water Distribution Networks, P. Bieupoude, Y. Azoumach and P. NeveuChapter 8. The Constructal Theory of Electrokinetic Transport through a Porous System, S. LorenteChapter 9. Constructal Theory Applied to Vascular Countercurrent Networks, Weizhong DaiChapter 10. Constructal Design of Animate and Inanimate Systems: an Answer to Consumerism?  J. V. C. VargasChapter 11. Constructal Design of Rectangular conjugate Cooling Channels, T. Bello- Ochende, O. T. Olakoyejo, and J. P. MeyerChapter 12. The Flow of Stresses:  Constructal Design of Perforated Plates Subjected to Tension or Buckling, L. A. Isoldi, M. V. Real, A. L. G. Correia, J. Vaz, E. D. dos Santos and L. A. O. RochaChapter 13. Equipartition of Joulean Heat in Thermoelectric Generators, A. K. PramanickChapter 14. Constructal Design of Refrigeration Devices, H. Zhang, X. Liu, R. Xiong and S. ZhuChapter 15. Constructal Design of Vortex Tubes, E. D. dos Santos, C. H. Marques, G. Stanescu, L. A. Isoldi and L. A. O. RochaChapter 16. Constructal Design of Wave Energy Converters, E. D. dos Santos, B. N. Machado, N. Lopes, J. A. Souza, P. R. F. Teixeira, M. N. Gomes, L. A. Isoldi and L. A. O. RochaChapter 17. Constructal Design of Thermal Systems, L. A. O. Rocha, E. D. dos Santos, D. C. Cunha, F. L. Garcia,  G. Lorenzini, C. Biserni, M. Letzow, J. A. V. Costa, J. A. Souza and L. A. IsoldiIndex

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781489998408
• Collana: Understanding Complex Systems
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 5212 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XIV, 330 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 330
• Pagine Romane: xiv