DESIGN GENERATION AND EVOLUTION OF FLOW SYSTEMS (SS1)
Natural and engineered flow systems are not amorphous - they have configurations (designs). Design is essential to both systems: the "better" design ensures natural flow systems to persist in time; the strategic engineering of flow architectures are essential to prevent high maintenance cost, reduced safety, increased environmental pollution, excessive energy consumption and poor reliability. In the late 1990s, it was clearly recognized by Adrian Bejan (J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University) that there is a connection between configuration and dynamics, in describing the evolution of the systems in space and in time. Configuration-generating phenomenon of "design" can be understood by considering the flow (that carries fluid, heat, mass), the physical mechanisms that are relevant and actively involved, and where the stream is located in the available space. According to him, the generation of flow configuration can be reasoned based on an evolutionary principle of increase of flow access in time (the constructal law). This fundamental contribution gives the possibility to learn where to expect opportunities for finding more effective configurations, and drives design thinking to science and away from art.
This special session is devoted to highlight the recent advances in "Design generation and evolution of flow systems".
THUS, WE INVITE RESEARCHERS TO SUBMIT THEIR LATEST WORK ON:
- Natural phenomena of design
- Strategic engineering of flow system design (e.g., compact flow systems, dendritic structures, smart materials, nanomaterials, etc.)
- Design of bioengineeering systems
- Constructal Theory
- Biomimetics
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Prof. Antonio F. Miguel
University of Evora,
Portugal
afm@uevora.pt |
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CONSTRUCTAL DESIGN OF CAVITIES INSERTED INTO A CYLINDRICAL SOLID BODY
Prof. L. Rocha
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil |
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THE DELIVERY OF AEROSOLS THROUGH CONSTRUCTAL T-SHAPED STRUCTURES
Prof. M. Aydin
Istanbul Technical University
Turkey |
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GAS DIFFUSION IN CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS: FROM EXPERIMENTS TO MODELLING OF POROUS ARCHITECTURE
Dr. F. Frizon
Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Enrobage des D¨Śchets
Commissariat ¨¤ l'Energie Atomique, Marcoule
France |
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