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Energies, 2022 The intelligent and appropriate regulation of indoor temperatures within heritage buildings is crucial for achieving nearly Zero-Energy Building (nZEB) standards, since the technical improvement of the envelope and the overall shape of heritage buildings
Lazaros Mavromatidis
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“Constructal Theory: From Engineering to Physics, and How Flow Systems Develop Shape and Structure” [PDF]
, 2006 Constructal theory and its applications to various fields ranging from engineering to natural living and inanimate systems, and to social organization and economics, are reviewed in this paper.
Reis, A. Heitor
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Constructal theory of global circulation and climate [PDF]
, 2006 The constructal law states that every flow system evolves in time so that it develops the flow architecture that maximizes flow access under the constraints posed to the flow.
Bejan, A, Reis, A. Heitor
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Energy Reports, 2015 Especially in the last decade, efforts have been made in developing the sustainable building assessment tools, which are usually performed based on fundamentals of the First Law of Thermodynamics.
Cesare Biserni, Massimo Garai
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Constructal view of scaling laws of river basins [PDF]
, 2006 River basins are examples of naturally organized flow architectures whose scaling properties have been noticed long ago. Based on data of geometric characteristics, Horton [Horton, R.E., 1932. Drainage basin characteristics. EOS Trans. AGU 13, 350–361.],
Reis, A. Heitor
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Biophilic urban developments following dynamic flows of tree-shaped architectures [PDF]
, 2015 Latest theories and practices in Biophilic designs of the urban space regard the urban fabric as being composed of several interrelated layers of energetic structure influencing each other in a non-linear manner primarily.
Tracada, Eleni
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Constructal law & thermoeconomics [PDF]
International Journal of Heat and Technology, 2016 In spite of evident differences, Constructal Theory and Thermoeconomics (in particular thermoeconomic optimization) have also some similarities. For instance, they both suggest the optimal allocation of two different types of losses: high permeability vs.
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Biomimetic and Constructal Design of Alveolus-Inspired Extended Surfaces for Heat Dispersion
Energies, 2022 Biomimetics is a school of design based on taking inspiration from nature to solve complex problems. This is done with the assumption that the natural world already has solutions to many engineering problems that have been refined through trial and error—
Aidan Robinson, Prodip K. Das
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Constructal vascularized structures
Open Engineering, 2015 Smart features such as self-healing and selfcooling require bathing the entire volume with a coolant or/and healing agent. Bathing the entire volume is an example of point to area (or volume) flows.
Cetkin Erdal
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Energies, 2021 This is a review of the concepts of purpose, direction, and objective in the discipline of thermodynamics, which is a pillar of physics, natural sciences, life science, and engineering science.
Adrian Bejan, George Tsatsaronis
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