Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design
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...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Σειρά: | Understanding Complex Systems,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface: Constructal law, design in nature, and complexity
- 1. The Constructal Design of Humanity on the Globe
- 2. Towards a Quantitative Unifying Theory of Natural Design of Flow Systems: Emergence and Evolution
- 3. Leaf Shapes and Venation Patterns
- 4. Drainage Basins Evolution with Non-Erodible Regions
- 5. Software Evolution and the Constructal Law
- 6. Constructal Design of High Conductivity Inserts
- 7. Constructal Design of T-shaped Water Distribution Networks
- 8. The Constructal Theory of Electrokinetic Transport through a Porous System
- 9. Constructal Theory Applied to Vascular Countercurrent Networks
- 10. Constructal Design of Animate and Inanimate Systems: an Answer to Consumerism?
- 11. Constructal Design of Rectangular conjugate Cooling Channels
- 12. The Flow of Stresses: Constructal Design of Perforated Plates Subjected to Tension or Buckling
- 13. Equipartition of Joulean Heat in Thermoelectric Generators
- 14. Constructal Design of Refrigeration Devices
- 15. Constructal Design of Vortex Tubes
- 16. Constructal Design of Wave Energy Converters
- 17. Constructal Design of Thermal Systems
- Index.
