About this item
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 principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land.
About the Author
Adrian Bejan was awarded the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal for "Thermodynamics and constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems".
He received all his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.1971, M.S.1972, Ph.D.1975) . He is the J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University:
http://mems.duke.edu/faculty/adrian-bejan.
He authored 30 books and 650 peer-refereed journal articles, and was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries, for example the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the University of Rome I "La Sapienza".
Through the Wormhole - Did God Create Evolution? - Constructal theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GMYr-H70VYo&feature=youtu.be
Constructal Law YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR7ecLXTEKVsMSMJI6-IC-A/videos? view_as=subscriber
