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The design in nature evolves as a flow of ideas — ideas of how to change to move and perform better — just as rivers, trees, and societies evolve to…
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Energy store & release motion, from Design in Nature
The video explores the concept of store-and-release energy locomotion, demonstrating how certain animals achieve extraordinary jumps by compressing…
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Education, Indoctrination, from Design in Nature
The video contrasts education with indoctrination, making clear that the essence of learning lies in exchange rather than one-way transmission.
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Umit Gunes
Constructal Design Method Applied to Wave Energy Converters: A Systematic Literature Review
by Maria Eduarda F. Capponero , Giovani D. Telli, Elizaldo D. dos Santos, Liércio A. Isoldi, Mateus das Neves Gomes, Cesare Biserni, Luiz Alberto O…
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Umit Gunes

August 2025

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

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