Design in nature
Subtitle: how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization
By: Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Contributors: Zane, J. Peder
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780385534611
Subjects: Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
Description: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of flow; title: The birth of design; title: Animals on the move; title: Witnessing evolution; title: Seeing beyond the trees and the forest; title: Why hierarchy reins; title: The fast and long meets the slow and short; title: The design of academia; title: The golden ratio, vision, cognition, and culture; title: The design of history.