Constructal Theory of Design in Nature lecture

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Thursday April 06, 2006 19:11 by k

Why are lungs and river basins tree-shaped? Why are larger animals faster and less active with their legs and wings? Professor Adrian Bejan explains.

"Constructal" is a word created by Bejan, coming from the latin verb construere, to construct, in order to designate, in the constructal theory's point of view, the naturally optimised forms such as rivers, trees and branches, lungs and also the engineered forms coming from a constructal optimization process.

Wednesday 12th April at 6.30 p.m. Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Free tickets from http://www.ria.ie/

More on constructual theory at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructal_theory
http://www.mems.duke.edu/faculty/bejan/const_theory.php