Adrian Bejan è un professore americano e scopritore della legge costruttale dell'evoluzione del design in natura. Il suo lavoro approfondisce i principi universali che governano l'evoluzione dei design naturali, dagli organismi viventi alle strutture sociali. Le teorie di Bejan offrono una prospettiva profonda sul perché le cose si sviluppano come fanno, rivelando i processi intrinseci di crescita, adattamento e flusso che plasmano il nostro mondo. Fornisce una lente unica attraverso cui comprendere i motori fondamentali della complessità e del cambiamento.
The book delves into the parallels between the design and organization of engineered systems and those found in nature. It examines how both realms utilize similar principles of shape and structure to achieve functionality and efficiency. By analyzing these connections, the text highlights the importance of biomimicry and the potential for innovation in engineering inspired by natural forms.
Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our engines that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life.
Exploring the intertwined nature of time and beauty, Adrian Bejan presents a scholarly yet engaging examination of how these fundamental perceptions shape human experience. He delves into the scientific principles underlying our understanding of time and aesthetic appreciation, offering a fresh perspective that challenges conventional views. This groundbreaking work combines rigorous analysis with a vivid narrative, making complex ideas accessible and thought-provoking for readers interested in the intersection of science and philosophy.
This book provides a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, such as fibrous insulation, geological strata, and catalytic reactors with applications in building insulation, energy storage, nuclear-waste disposal, coal and grain storage, chemical reactor engineering, groundwater flow, and convection in snow. The presentation is self-contained, requiring only routine classical mathematics and the basics of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. 264 illus.
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. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.