Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

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		Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
		Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
 
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical "flowcharts" or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies.

All are governed by the same principle, known as the Constructal Law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.

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叙述清晰，思路明确，很好的书，值得推荐！

还不错的，提高英语中。

从自然设计的角度入手了解复杂的物理现象，是学习复杂网络的一本有益书籍。

This powerful book is a profound breakthrough that expresses a law of physics so fundamental it's been with us forever but never actually captured by science. Make no mistake, this book is a rigorously scientific examination of it's premise and is filled with examples that clearly illustrate the truth of it's predictions. The impact of this newly comprehended law will only grow in significance and breadth over time as we begin to use it more and more as a framework for smarter and smarter design in our own realm. To truly appreciate and comprehend the vastness of this new perspective is to be stunned into the reality that nothing is outside of it. All phenomena obeys this law and the leap in understanding this requires is ancient and intuitive while also being cutting edge and radical. Not for the faint of mind.

I really wanted to like this book, with its emphasis on natural design and flow.

The first problem is an introduction that runs on for 26 pages positing constructal law as a universal all-unifying theory, while indulging in generous helpings of self praise and describing past scientists as having stumbled around blindly in preconstructal ignorance.

Dr.Bejan has leveraged his considerable knowledge of mechanical engineering and thermodynamics into regions of science that are not so familiar to him. His descriptions of a tree's function being nothing more than a facilitator of water flow, and the leg length of an athlete being the sole determinate of sprinting performance are both highly simplistic and ill informed.

And that's just the beginning, as constructal law is then forced into strange relationships with all manner of things, sometimes with illustrations that seem to contradict the descriptions. Repetition is rampant in the manner of a high pressure sales job.

I award Dr. Bejan two stars for having caused me to weigh his arguments carefully. His constructal law does seem to have some legitimate applications, but I remain highly skeptical of the universality he so strongly argues for in this book.

I just loved it. Myself being an engineer and a "Darwinian", the Constructal Law of Adrian Bejan opened new insights in front of me. I am looking at things around me "moving" and trying to figure out how that motion could fit into this new physics law and "design in nature". Just wonderful..

This book is an extremely well-written description of the Constructal Law, by its founder. An amazing book that every designer and engineer should own.

Very thought provoking book about why things are the way they are.

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