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Why university ranking do not change

This fresh constructal-theory article shows that the hierarchy persists because it is the global flow structure that supports the easiest flow of ideas, to students and into the books of our evolving science and culture (International Journal of Design and Nature, Vol2, Issue 4).

Physics Explains Why University Rankings Won't Change by Kendall Morgan [ read online! ]

Prof links school rankings to constructal theory by Jessica Lichter [ read online! ]
Design and Nature article ]
© PHOTO BY ROBERT WILLETT
© Photo by Robert Willett

Going with the flow

In this article Peder Zane reviews the deterministic powers of the Constructal Law to predict design in nature, the animate and the inanimate realms together.

[ The News & Observer article ]

Constructal view of the scaling laws of street networks

This Physica A article from A. Heitor Reis unveils the dynamics behind geometry generating the inverse-power distribution laws of street lengths and nodes, on the basis of Constructal Theory.

[ Phys. A. article ]

"How nature takes shape"

Read online one of the first articles on Constructal Theory - 1997 - by Adrian BEJAN, in The "Mechanical Engineering" Magazine of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

[ online article ]


Scale invariance deviation explained by Constructal theory


In their Physica A paper "Parabolic scaling of tree-shaped constructal network", a french-american team show that constructal networks perform better than Fractal, and that Constructal Theory predicts the deviations from scale invariance observed in many natural phenomena.

[ Phys. A. article ]
Video! Constructal Theory explains why a river looks like a tree

In this interview, Adrian Bejan explains us the reasons behind the similarities between water flow structures like river and botanical trees, on the basis of Constructal Theory.

[ DUKE Today Archives ]
The many and the few

In the July issue of the MECHANICAL ENGINEERING magazine (ASME), Adrian Bejan explores 300-year old roots of prefigurations of Constructal theory, through the scientific contributions of Denis Papin and Sadi Carnot, both French engineers. This article outlines the place that the constructal law occupies in thermodynamics, next to the second law.
[ The many and the few ]
Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics

This new book dedicated to "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics" will be available on June.
SPRINGER is offering you a 20% discount on this title good through July 31, 2007!
You can already go to the CTSD book's webpage and use the promotion code EE2635 to command it!.
[ Preface and contents (PDF) | See contents online ]
Termodinámica de la locomoción animal

This article from A. Bejan and J.H. Marden published in Investigación y Ciencia: 361 - OCTUBRE 2006 is the spanish translation of their article in American Scientist, July-August 2006 [ more... ].

This paper uses the constructal law to predict the speeds, frequencies and forces of all animal locomotion (flying, running, swimming).
[Online PDF]
Read Prof. Jaime Cervantes de Gortari's review of Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics 3rd Ed. Wiley (2006) by A. Bejan

"The truly innovative Constructal Theory [ ... ] predictions reported in this book are the scaling laws of all animal locomotion [...], the distribution of the sizes of human settlements, the [...] scaling laws of river basins, the shape of all Egyptian pyramids, vegetation, and the evolution of science and civilization."

[Online article|PDF]
Along with constructal theory
The Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment of the University of Lausanne publish a new book about Constructal Theory by Profs. Bejan, Lorente, Miguel, and Reis, edited by J. Hernandez and M. Cosinschi (204 pages, 96 figures, 184 references).
Among other topics, The Shape and living systems, Constructal theory of river basins, and Agglomeration or deposition of aerosol particles are addressed in this book.

[Front Cover]
Constructal theory of sociodynamic forms

In these three books published by L'Harmattan, Patrick Kalason uses a constructal and trifunctional systematic approach to propose new keys to understand the emergency of sociodynamic forms such as religious practices, negociation processes, and communication mechanisms underlying social changes (in French).

[Epistemology of the religious link
|The Ethic of negociation
|Constructal theory of social change]
Constructal pattern formation in stony corals

Antonio Miguel investigates here a new application of constructal theory: describing and predicting the formation of dissimilar patterns inside elements of the same species under different hydrodynamics conditions (from Journal of Theoretical Biology 242, 2006, 954–961).

[Online article|PDF]

Constructal Theory: Sustainability
A Treehugger serie of incoming 4 articles


In this first article Tim Mc Gee emphasizes the role and relevancy of a new law of physics (the Constructal Law) regarding sustainability and the environment.

[Treehugger|Energy and the Environment (by A. Bejan)]
Heterogeneous porous media as multiscale structures

The “porous medium” that has tree-shaped labyrinths is heterogeneous, with multiple scales that are distributed nonuniformly.
These features justify comparisons with the design of natural porous structures.
Read online this article from the Journal of Applied Physics.

[Journal of Applied Physics|PDF]
Constructal view of Dendritic growth

This paper focuses on the prediction of the dendritic solid structure based on the application of the constructal theory.

[Article (PDF)]
Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics

A new book dedicated to "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics" is announced by SPRINGER for May 2007.
[See contents]
Mandelbrot, Bejan, Wolfram and Turing together in
"Traqueurs de formes"

A supplement of Science & Vie no. 1067, August 2006, about the commonality of Benoît Mandelbrot's Fractal model, Alan Turing's point of view, Stephen Wolfram's "New kind of Science" and Constructal Theory of Adrian Bejan.

[S&V|Supplement]
Ciencia review of "Shape & Structure"

A review by Jaime Cervantes de Gortari of the book "Shape & Structure - from Engineering to Nature" by Adrian BEJAN, from Ciencia: the official magazine of the Mexican Academy of Sciences

[Review (PDF)|Ciencia online]
Constructal theory of generation of configuration in nature and engineering

This article from A. Bejan and S. Lorente, Applied Physics Reviews, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, 2006, 041301: was selected for the Sept. 1, 2006 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

[More]
L'épistémologie

The 7th chapter of this french book co-written by A. Kremer-Marietti and J. Dhombes exposes the Constructal Law proposed by A. Bejan.

[Book details]
Microvascular Autonomic Composites (µVAC)

This multidisciplinary university research initiative concern the design of autonomic materials, and includes researches on biomimetics and constructal design.

[Read more]
Optimal temperature distribution in a three dimensional triple-layered skin

This article from JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 99, 104702 (2006) extends the study of the authors to a triple-layered skin structure embedded with multilevel blood vessels© 2006 American Institute of Physics.

[Read article]
Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics 3rd Ed

The 3rd edition of this 1997 book from Adrian Bejan, that first presented the Constructal theory, is now available!

[Read more]
Constructing Animal Locomotion from New Thermodynamics Theory

Adrian Bejan and James H. Marden have developed an analytical formula that can predict many features of animal shape and locomotion. This theory could help for understanding the animal evolution's patterns. Read this article from American Scientist, July-August 2006, Volume 94, Number 4.

[Read article]

Locomotion : une même loi pour tous
(French translation of Am. Sci. article)


Retrouvez la traduction française de l'article de A. Bejan et J. Marden dans l'article de "Pour La Science" N° 346 - août 2006.

[Pour La Science n°346]
Constructal theory of droplet impact geometry

Understand the transition between "sometimes round, sometimes crown" liquid droplets using Constructal theory. An article from A. Bejan and D. Gobin, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 49 (2006) 2412–2419.

[PDF | ScienceDirect.com]
Bejan's Heatlines and Masslines

Heatlines and masslines were some of the first attempts to treat the configurations of flow systems on the basis of principle. Read more on this subject in this article from V. A. F. Costa: "Bejan's Heatlines and Masslines for Convection Visualization and Analysis" (Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 59, MAY 2006).

[PDF]

Constructal theory of particle agglomeration and design of air-cleaning devices

An article by A. H. Reis, A. F. Miguel and A. Bejan is available online (Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 39 No 10 (21 May 2006) 2311-2318 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/39/10/046)

[
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The 3rd edition of Convection in Porous Media (Springer, 2006) by D. A. Nieldand A. Bejan is available, ISBN 0-387-29096-6

NEW! The design of every thing that flows and moves (Review)


Available through RSS Channel

Convection Heat Transfer

The revised edition of the classic of Heat Transfer from Adrian Bejan.

Buy from:
Visit wiley.com

[Front Cover|Back cover]
Constructal theory of running, swimming, and flying
Read the full article and more about the constructal unification of animal movement design:
SPIEGEL ONLINE (german) ["Ein Gesetz für die Bewegung aller Tiere"]
Journal of Experimental Biology ["Unifying constructal theory for scale effects in running, swimming and flying"]
Seed Magazine ["A finger on the pulse of the world"]
Astrobiology Magazine ["Evolution of Movement Design is Deterministic"]
Darwin, Evoluzionismo e Darwinismo (italian) ["Il movimento degli animali spiegato dalla Teoria Construttale", Wednesday, January 18, 2006]
ROBOCLUB Practiceskaia Robotehnica (russian) ["Edinaia fiziceskaia teoria...jivotnih", January 10, 2006]
See also Journal of Experimental Biology ["Unifying Locomotion"] by Kathryn Phillips.
Constructal theory of global circulation and climate
In this paper, A. H. Reis and A. Bejan develop model of heat transport on the earth surface that accounts for the solar and terrestrial radiation as the heat source and heat sink and with natural convection loops as the transport mechanism...
[article | Review ]
The constructal law of organization in nature: tree-shaped flows and body size

An article from Adrian Bejan from the Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 1677-1686 (2005), first published April 26, 2005
[html | pdf | image(full size)]

The constructal law and the thermodynamics of flow systems with configuration
E. F. OBERT AWARD, ASME, 2004

An article from A. Bejan, S. Lorente, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 3203–3214 [article | image(full size)]

Brightsurf.com ["New thermodynamic theory will help engineers 'go with the flow'"]
Inovacao Tecnologica (port.) ["Nova Lei da Temodinâmica interpreta fluxos de fluidos"]

La Loi Constructale

Sylvie Lorente and Adrian Bejan are co-authors of this first book written in French concerning the Constructal Theory
[content|Review by A. Hetor Reis]


La Loi constructale

Constructing a Theory for Scaling and More

PHYSICS TODAY published 2 letters from Adrian Bejan and Alexandru Morega concerning the Constructal Theory and scaling laws in nature, Sept. 2004, p. 36
[html-pdf]
Bejan's Constructal Theory of Shape and Structure
The proceedings of the 1st International Bejan's symposium held on 31 october 2003 can be ordered from the Evora Geophysic Center, 219 pages ISBN: 972-9039-75-5
[content-details]
3rd Ed announced

The 3rd edition of this 1997 book from Adrian Bejan, that first presented the constructal theory, will be published in 2006


Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics 2nd Ed
Entropy Generation Minimization
This 1996 book from Adrian Bejan presents the diverse and expanding field of Entropy Generation Minimization (EGM), CRC Press, 362 pages, ISBN: 0849396514


Entropy Generation Minimization

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