Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization / Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane.
New York : Doubleday, c2012Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385534611 (hbk.)
- 0385534612 (hbk.)
- Q172.5.C45 B45 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Mesa Lab | Q172.5 .C45 .B45 2012 | 1 | Available | 50583010341125 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.
The birth of flow -- The birth of design -- Animals on the move -- Witnessing evolution -- Seeing beyond the trees and the forest -- Why hierarchy reins -- The fast and long meets the slow and short -- The design of academia -- The golden ratio, vision, cognition, and culture -- The design of history.
Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow-- Source other than Library of Congress.