Journal
SCIENCE CHINA-TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 802-820Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-011-4701-9
Keywords
constructal theory; generalized thermodynamic optimization; 'volume-point' model; heat transfer; heat and mass transfer; fluid flow; transport engineering
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51176203]
- Natural Science Foundation of Naval University of Engineering [HGDYDJJ10011]
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The emergence and development of constructal theory, which has been a new discipline branch to research sorts of structures in nature and engineering, are reviewed. The core of the constructal theory is that various shapes and structures of the matters in nature are generated from the tendency to obtain optimal performance. Constructal theory and its application are summarized, from disciplines such as heat, mechanism, fluid flow, electricity, magnetism and chemistry, to life and non-life systems in nature.
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