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.