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Design with Constructal Theory Reviews

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Summary: Great book, reviewed by H Zhang
Comment: This book formulates in a graceful and unique way a brand-new and valuable approach for design based on a general physics law- constructal law on flow configration generation (in nature and engineering). I like the book because the approach is very useful and efficient and the writing is very interesting.
The book covers thermodynamics and design, single flow configurations, networks with distribution and collection, multiscale configurations, multi-objective configurations, dendritic heat exchangers, configurations for thermal and mass distribution, combined mechanical and flow configurations, vascularized smart materials etc. The latest advances are reported in many chapters.
I strongly recommend this book to university students, engineers, researchers and those who may be interested in improving their "design". It's a must-read and deserves 5 stars!

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Summary: Pursuing better designs
Comment: This is an excellent book. It is full of new ideas that inspire us in the direction of pursuing better designs, and of understanding design in nature. I will use it as a textbook for my Constructal Theory and Design class in the Computational Modeling Graduate Program at Federal University of Rio Grande. I strongly recommend it to all engineering professors who teach DESIGN.

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Summary: Growing Constructally
Comment: Since its inception by 1996, Constructal Theory is delivering more things than it ever promised - a trait of a good theory, as can be verified from the History of Science.

Over the last decade the theory has been successfully applied in giving a theoretical framework for some empirical notions in many fields - road transport, heat sink design, electrical networks, tree shapes, bird flight, animal allometric laws, social networks, pyramid shapes, Zipf function, the list is growing.

Guided with a simple coupled optimization technique, the gamut of things the theory predicts and explains is amazing. I bought the book to keep myself abreast of these exciting ramifications. The book details constructal theory in clear and rich (contrast with muddled and flowery) language - the hallmark of any of the books by the author.

The book is a must for those who are curious to explore new design paradigms that is firmly based on analytical and predictive theory. In fact, if not for the design utility, the book should deck our library simply for what it represents - the Joy of Theory.

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