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Thermodynamic optimization of global circulation and climate [PDF]
, 2005 The constructal law of generation of flow structure is used to predict the main features of global circulation and climate. The flow structure is the atmospheric and oceanic circulation.
Bejan, A., Reis, A. Heitor
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Accessing the Influence of Hess-Murray Law on Suspension Flow through Ramified Structures [PDF]
, 2013 The present study focuses on fluid flow and particle transport in symmetric T-shaped structures formed by tubes with circular and square cross-section.
Miguel, A. F., Serrenho, Ana
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Energies, 2021 Placement of fins in enclosures has promising utilization in advanced technological processes due to their role as heat reducing/generating elements such as in conventional furnaces, economizers, gas turbines, heat exchangers, superconductive heaters and
Sardar Bilal +4 more
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AD-HOC principles of minimum energy expenditure as corollaries of the constructal law the cases of river basins and human vascular systems [PDF]
, 2016 In a recent paper [1] Reis showed that both the principles of extremum of entropy production rate, which are often used in the study of complex systems, are corollaries of the Constructal Law.
Reis, A. Heitor
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Constructal Theory: A Tool for Ergonomics [PDF]
, 2015 Constructal theory proposes to see living bodies as machines that are subjected to constraints, which are constructed with a goal, an objective, which is to obtain maximum efficiency.
Reis, A. Heitor
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Constructal theory of pattern formation [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2007 This review article shows that the occurrence of macroscopic flow configuration is a universal natural phenomenon that can be explained and predicted on the basis of a principle of physics (the constructal law): "For a flow system to persist in time
A. Bejan
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Thermodynamic optimisation of the biofuel production based on mutualism
Energy Reports, 2020 Recently, we have introduced a new bioeconomic indicator in order to avoid the difficulties in evaluating the process and technologies for sustainability. In this paper, we wish to improve this new indicator for the analysis of sustainability.
Giulia Grisolia +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2020 This numerical study aims to investigate the influence of I and T-shaped empty channels’ geometry on the filling time of resin in a rectangular porous enclosed mold, mimicking the main operating principle of a liquid resin infusion (LRI) process ...
Glauciléia M. C. Magalhães +7 more
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Use and validity of principles of extremum of entropy production in the study of complex systems [PDF]
, 2014 It is shown how both the principles of extremum of entropy production, which are often used in the study of complex systems, follow from the maximization of overall system conductivities, under appropriate constraints.
Reis, A. Heitor
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The construction of Mendel's laws [PDF]
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2008 AbstractWhile “Mendel's Laws” are generally taught as natural facts, they are actually pedagogical constructions, which originated in a series of lectures at Princeton in 1916. What accounts for their popularity?
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