Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

Book Overview

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 all 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385534612
• ISBN13: 9780385534611
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"