The Birth of the Constructal Newsletter
Just as all things change, so too do publishing platforms. I created the Constructal Newsletter to bring ideas and innovations to a broader audience through posts, publications, and announcements.
The platform I previously created, constructal@googlegroups.com, had around 200 members, most of whom know each other personally. Then I realized that this platform was confining us to a relatively small group. For this reason, I designed a more inclusive platform. The Constructal Newsletter quickly reached 440 subscribers.
The primary content source is the Constructal YouTube Channel. It currently has over 1000 subscribers and an impressive archive of over YouTube videos. We are also organizing the Constructal Law Conference (CLC) series, which we hold annually in different countries around the globe.
This year, the 15th Constructal Law Conference will be held from November 5 to 7 at Florida International University in Miami. We publish the conference outcomes in reputable journals such as Biosystems, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
The constructal society has taken form naturally. It is now home for many activities, such as publishing newsletter items, YouTube videos, conference presentations, and articles in special journal issues. You can access the newsletter archive.
Contact: info@constructal.org
What is Constructal Law?
The constructal law, stated by Duke’s Adrian Bejan in 1996, is the law of physics that accounts for the phenomenon of evolution (change, configuration, form, design) throughout nature, inanimate flow systems, and animate systems together.
For a finite size flow system (not infinitesimal) to persist in time (to live) it must evolve with freedom such that it provides easier and greater access to what flows.
The law places the concepts of life, evolution, freedom, form, configuration, directionality, and objective in physics, which is in the broadest scientific arena.
It is the law of physics of life and evolution everywhere, animate, inanimate, human made, and not human made.
It is the arrow of time, the direction of the evolution of flow organization.
Who is Umit Gunes?
I love science, technology, high-quality academic work, data science, visualization, and networking, which is why I enjoy being part of the constructal society. My brief resume is below; more is available on my webpage.
In 2007, I enrolled in Yıldız Technical University’s Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, from which I graduated in 2011. During my undergraduate studies, I was a visiting student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. I earned my master’s degree at Yıldız Technical University in 2013.
In August 2019, I completed my doctoral dissertation, titled “Performance and Size in Moving Systems: Constructal Law”. Between January 2017 and April 2018, I was a visiting researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University.
I started as a research assistant in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Yildiz Technical University, where I also served as an assistant professor from June 2020 to November 2023. From August 2021 to August 2022, I was a visiting professor at Duke University. I am an associate professor at Yıldız Technical University since November 2023.
