In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature--trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts--and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world.
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Laminar air flow through plate fins in the microchannel heat sink built into the back of an integrated circuit chip. This figure shows the pressure distribution; the corresponding temperature distribution is shown on the front cover, where the flow direction is upward. The Reynolds number based on t[...]
Explores the similaries between shape and structure in engineered and natural systems.
Written by an internationally recognized authority on heat transfer and thermodynamics, this second edition of Convection Heat Transfer contains new and updated problems and examples reflecting real-world research and applications, including heat exchanger design.[...]