Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a the Constructal Law accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world. Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, and Social Organization, written with J. Peder Zane, looks at how 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.
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Meet Adrian Bejan
Duke University professor Adrian Bejan escaped communist Romania in the late 1960s and traveled to the United States to attend college and find a new life. At M.I.T., he developed his passion for mechanical engineering, something that would lead him to a new view of the world and a new theory about nature. Bejan will talk with host Frank Stasio about his life, his work and who really invented the wheel.
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