Unifying The Animate And The Inanimate Designs Of Nature
April 29, 2009 | Source: PhysOrg.com
Duke University engineer Adrian Bejan and Penn State biologist James Marden have unified the biological and geophysical principles of nature’s design through the “constructal law,” the idea that organic evolution is analogous to the way form evolves in inanimate flow systems.
They believe this is a novel concept with the potential to unite perspectives and approaches across disparate disciplines.