Constructal theory and its applications to various fields ranging from engineering to natural living and inanimate systems, and to social organization and economics, are reviewed in …
A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures. New approaches to …
Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies represents a new approach to the field, considering the fundamentals of porous media in terms of the key roles played …
A Bejan, S Lorente - Journal of applied physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Constructal theory is the view that the generation of flow configuration is a physics phenomenon that can be based on a physics principle (the constructal law):“For a finite-size …
LG Chen - Science China Technological Sciences, 2012 - Springer
The emergence and development of constructal theory, which has been a new discipline branch to research sorts of structures in nature and engineering, are reviewed. The core of …
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single …
A Bejan - Applied Physics Reviews, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This review covers two aspects of “evolution” in thermodynamics. First, with the constructal law, thermodynamics is becoming the domain of physics that accounts for the phenomenon …
P Xu, B Yu, M Yun, M Zou - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2006 - Elsevier
The geometric structures and fractal dimensions of fractal tree-like branched networks have the significant influence on the efficiency of physiological, communication and transport …
A Bejan - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This article addresses the main research areas identified in the call for contributions to this special issue. With examples from published articles and books, the present article shows …