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 new edition of the bestseller on convection heat transfer A revised edition of the industry classic, Convection Heat Transfer, Fourth Edition, chronicles how the field of heat transfer …
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 …
A Bejan, S Lorente - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Constructal theory is the view that (i) the generation of images of design (pattern, rhythm) in nature is a phenomenon of physics and (ii) this phenomenon is covered by a principle (the …
LG Chen - Chinese science bulletin, 2012 - Springer
The entransy and entransy dissipation extremum principle proposed have opened up a new direction for the heat transfer optimization. The emergence and development of entransy …
A Bejan - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2005 - journals.biologists.com
The constructal law is the statement that for a flow system to persist in time it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to its currents. This is the law of configuration …
Tree-shaped networks are now being considered as small-scale architectures for high- densities in electronics cooling and fuel cells design. This paper documents the optimization …
S Wei, L Chen, F Sun - Applied Energy, 2009 - Elsevier
According to constructal area-point heat conduction model, the thermal current in the high conductive link increases only at conjunction points. If the optimum number of the lower …