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Adrian Bejan | Snake locomotion, from Design in Nature
This video explains snake locomotion as part of the broader rhythm of animal movement, showing that even without legs, snakes follow the same principle…
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Umit Gunes
Optimal flow and scaling laws for power-law fluids in elliptical cross-sectional self-similar tree-like networks
by Ashish Garg, Himanshu Mishra, Sudip K. Pattanayek
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Nature's wheel and bicycle, from Design in Nature
The video develops the idea that movement in animals and humans follows a natural design that can be understood as a kind of wheel, showing how steps…
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Gravity does matter to the fish, from Design in Nature
In this video, Adrian Bejan challenges a widespread assumption in scientific literature that gravity does not matter to the fish.
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Serpentines, Galilei, & the fish, from Design in Nature
​ In this video, Adrian Bejan begins with the familiar model of animal motion, where effort is split into two parts: vertical and horizontal.
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Running, from Design in Nature
In this video, Adrian Bejan extends his analysis of animal locomotion to running, showing how flow architecture and resistance shape the evolution of…
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Umit Gunes

July 2025

Adrian Bejan | Flying, from Design in Nature
In this video, Adrian Bejan explores animal locomotion through the lens of configuration, freedom to change, and effort.
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Constructal Law & Thermodynamics
In this video, Adrian Bejan explains how the Constructal Law expands the view of thermodynamics by showing that design is not just a human act but a…
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | The easy and the difficult, from Design in Nature
In this video, Adrian Bejan reflects on teaching and learning as an active, in-person exchange rather than a top-down process.
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Radial conduction cooling, innovation, from Design in Nature
In this video, Adrian Bejan reimagines a round slab of electronics, a disc, like a pizza, that generates heat uniformly and is cooled from the center.
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Rivers of heat, serendipity, innovation, from Design in Nature
In this video, Adrian Bejan introduces the concept of rivers of heat, a continuation of earlier flow models involving pedestrian flow and rivers of…
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Umit Gunes

June 2025

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