Research Catalog

Title

Shape and structure, from engineering to nature / Adrian Bejan.

Author

Bejan, Adrian, 1948-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2000.

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Subject

• Systems engineering
• Engineering design
• System analysis
• Flow charts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Natural Form, Questioning, and Theory. 1.1. The Great Puzzle: From What Principle can Geometric Form be Deduced? 1.2. The Hardest Questions. 1.3. The Objective and Constraints Principle -- 2. Mechanical Structure. 2.1. Cantilever Beam: Objective and Constraints. 2.2. External Shape. 2.3. Internal Structure. 2.4. Shape and Structure, Together. 2.5. Column in End Compression. 2.6. The Concept of "Better" -- 3. Thermal Structure. 3.1. Cooling Electronics: Objective and Constraints. 3.2. Volume Cooled by Natural Convection. 3.3. Volume Cooled by Forced Convection. 3.4. The Method of Intersecting the Asymptotes. 3.5. The Balance between Stream-Travel Time and Diffusion Time. 3.6. Optimal Longitudinal Flow Pulsations.

ISBN

• 0521793882 (pbk)
• 0521790492 (hb)

LCCN

^^^00027314^

OCLC

43599079

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library