Shape and structure, from engineering to nature
The book starts from design and optimization of engineer systems, and then the author discusses a deterministic principle for generation of geometric forms in natural systems. Shape and structure spring from the competition for better performance in both engineering and nature. This observation leads to the thought that the objective and constraint principle used in engineering is also the mechanism from which the geometry emerges in natural flow systems. This principle accounts not only for tree-shaped flows but also for other geometric forms encountered in engineering and nature -- round ducts, regularly spaced internal channels, and the proportionality between width and depth in rivers.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEOptimal distribution of imperfections is a principle that generates the form, if the system is destined to stay imperfect. The system works best when its imperfections are spread around, so that more and more of the internal points are stressed as much as the constructal principle demands: objective serves better under the grip of global and local constraints.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book unifies the engineered and natural worlds. Among the topics covered in twelve chapters are mechanical structures, thermal structures, heat trees, ducts and rivers, turbulent structures, and structures in transport and economics. Numerous illustrations, examples, and homework problems in every chapter constitute an ideal text for engineering design courses. The provocative ideas of this book will also appeal to a broad community of readers in engineering, natural sciences, economics, and business. The book is complete, eminently readable, and is accessible to novices and experts working in the above-mentioned fields.
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- Constructal design of T-Y assembly of fins for an optimized heat removal
- The effect of spatial scale on predicting time series: a study on epidemiological system identifi\-cation
- Geometric optimization of T-Y-shaped cavity according to constructal design
- Constructal multidisciplinary optimization of electromagnet based on entransy dissipation minimization
- Thermodynamic optimization of flow geometry in mechanical and civil engineering
- Topology optimization of flow networks.
- Considerations on non equilibrium thermodynamics of interactions
- Lattice Boltzmann method for shape optimization of fluid distributor
- The importance of ion fluxes for cancer proliferation and metastasis: a thermodynamic analysis
- Exergy flows as bases of constructal law
- Statistical models for jointly analyzing multiple allometries
- On the use of entropy to predict boundary layer stability
- Fluid flow in a porous tree-shaped network: optimal design and extension of Hess-Murray's law
- Allometric scaling laws for water uptake by plant roots
- A hydraulic-photosynthetic model based on extended HLH and its application to coast redwood (\textit{Sequoia sempervirens})
- Unifying constructal theory of tree roots, canopies and forests
- ``Disc-point mass transfer constructal optimizations with Darcy and Hagen-Poiseuille flows in porous media
- Low-dimensional spatial embedding method for shape uncertainty quantification in acoustic scattering by 2D star shaped obstacles
- Groundwater flow in hillslopes: analytical solutions by the theory of holomorphic functions and hydraulic theory
- Topology optimization of vapor chamber internal structures consisting of evaporator and condenser
- Occlusions in dendritic flow networks
- A constructive theory of shape
- Constructal pattern formation in stony corals, bacterial colonies and plant roots under different hydrodynamics conditions
- Numerical comparison of three stochastic methods for nonlinear PN junction problems
- Three-dimensional multi-scale plate assembly for maximum heat transfer rate density
- Exterior Dirichlet and Neumann problems in domains with random boundaries
- Estimation of exciton diffusion lengths of organic semiconductors in random domains
- A critical analysis of the minimum entropy production theorem and its application to heat and fluid flow
- Stochastic smoothed profile method for modeling random roughness in flow problems
- Infinitesimal calculus in metric spaces
- Shape minimization of dendritic attenuation
- Heuristic optimality criterion algorithm for shape design of fluid flow
- Multiscale mesoscopic entropy of driven macroscopic systems
- A model for allometric permeation in fractal branching channel net driven by capillary pressure
- Toward an optimal design principle in symmetric and asymmetric tree flow networks
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- Topology optimization of regions of Darcy and Stokes flow
- Shape optimization for 2D diffusive scalar transport
- Dynamical systems and topology optimization
- Non-equilibrium pattern selection in particle sedimentation
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- Topology optimization of heat conduction problems using the finite volume method
- Linear parabolic problems in random moving domains
- Combined electroosmotic and pressure driven flow in tree-like microchannel network
- Use and validity of principles of extremum of entropy production in the study of complex systems
- Heat conduction in a solid slab embedded with a pipe of general cross-section: shape factor and shape optimization
- Simplified shallow water flow equations and their potential use in bottom profile optimization
- Constructal entransy dissipation rate minimization for umbrella-shaped assembly of cylindrical fins
- Constructal optimization for geometry of cavity by taking entransy dissipation minimization as objective
- Constructal optimization of discrete and continuous-variable cross-section conducting path based on entransy dissipation rate minimization
- Constructal optimization of a vertical insulating wall based on a complex objective combining heat flow and strength
- Constructal entransy dissipation rate and flow-resistance minimizations for cooling channels
- On the affordances of the MaxEP principle
- Flow boiling in constructal tree-shaped minichannel network
- Constructal entransy dissipation rate minimization of a disc
- Geometric optimization of isothermal cavities according to Bejan's theory
- Optimization of fluid flow and internal geometric structure of volumes cooled by forced convection in an array of parallel tubes
- Robustness in the volume-to-point heat conduction optimization problem
- Constructal theory of pedestrian dynamics
- Constructal design of permeable reactive barriers: groundwater-hydraulics criteria
- Error analysis of a hybrid numerical method for optimal control problem governed by parabolic PDEs in random cylindrical domains
- Synchronizing time-varying discrete heating elements in forced convection for minimal thermal resistance
- On a biologically inspired topology optimization method
- Computational optimization of the thermal performance of internally finned ducts
- The transient response of vascular composites cooled with grids and radial channels
- Vascularization with line-to-line trees in counterflow heat exchange
- Tree-shaped vascular wall designs for localized intense cooling
- A heuristic approach to optimal arrangement of multiple heat sources under conjugate natural convection
- An ecological framework linking scales across space and time based on self-thinning
- ``Volume-point heat conduction constructal optimization with entransy dissipation minimization objective based on rectangular element
- Constructal optimization for a solid-gas reactor based on triangular element
- A mathematical model for skin burn injury induced by radiation heating
- Energy flows in complex ecological systems: a review
- Note on constructal theory of organization in nature
- The ``flow of stresses concept: the analogy between mechanical strength and heat convection
- Radiative effects on natural convection in vertical convergent channels
- Fluid flow and heat transfer in vascularized cooling plates
- Volumetric maximization of coolant usage in closed self-driven circuits
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