Patent Document ID: 9836667
Application ID: 14351414
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for performing a constructal analysis, the system comprising a processor and a memory to perform a method comprising: initiating capture of an image of a subject; where the subject comprises an apparent random pathway, pattern, or network; where the apparent random pathway, pattern or network comprises a flow field; initiating at least one image processing algorithm on the image; identifying at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or one series of events in the image; identifying a center and at least one endpoint associated with the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the event in the image; calculating a path length associated with the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the event in the image; calculating at least one statistical measure associated the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the one series of events in the image; where the statistical measure is calculated by constructal analysis; correlating the at least one statistical measure with a plurality of respective other statistical measures of at least one other apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the one series of events in the subject or in another subject; where constructal analysis comprises determining initial conditions, boundary conditions and operating constraints for optimizing a flow in the apparently random pathway, pattern or network; translating the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the one series of events in the image into a mathematical topological network; calculating flow-related performance metrics at all nodes of the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the one series of events when an inlet pressure to the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network, or the one series of events is proportional to an applied pressure; and generating an optimal morphology design for the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network that will yield a minimum global resistance to flow for individual operating constraints and input conditions that the at least one apparent random pathway, pattern, network is subjected to.