The effect of size on efficiency: power plants and vascular designs

DOI10.1016/J.IJHEATMASSTRANSFER.2010.11.045MaRDI QIDQ533238zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Bejan, S. Lorente, B. S. Yilbas, Ahmet Z. Şahin

Publication date 2 May 2011

Published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.11.045

zbMATH Keywords

size effectconstructal laweconomies of scaleanimal designriver basinsscaling upvascular design

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