Overview: Captures a world-wide movement toward design as science.Unifies physics and biology, and discusses the place of the Constructal Law in physics and thermodynamics.Features an interdisciplinary approach.Design happens everywhere, whether in animate objects (e.g., dendritic lung structures, bacterial colonies, and corals), inanimate patterns (river basins, beach slope, and dendritic crystals), social dynamics (pedestrian traffic flows), or engineered systems (heat dissipation in electronic circuitry). This “design in nature” often takes on remarkably similar patterns, which can be expla
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