Design happens everywhere whether in animate objects (e.g. dendritic lung structures
bacterial colonies and corals) inanimate patterns (river basins beach slope and dendritic
crystals) social dynamics (pedestrian traffic flows) or engineered systems (heat dissipation
in electronic circuitry). This design in nature often takes on remarkably similar patterns
which can be explained under one unifying Constructal Law. This book explores the unifying
power of the Constructal Law and its applications in all domains of design generation and
evolution ranging from biology and geophysics to globalization energy sustainability and
security. The Constructal Law accounts for the universal tendency of flow systems to morph into
evolving configurations that provide greater and easier access over time. The Constructal Law
resolves the many and contradictory ad hoc statements of optimality end design and destiny in
nature such as minimum and maximum entropy production and minimum and maximum flow resistance
and also explains the designs that are observed and copied in biomimetics. Constructal Law and
the Unifying Principle of Design covers the fundamentals of Constructal Theory and Design as
well as presenting a variety of state-of-the-art applications. Experts from the biological
physical and social sciences demonstrate the unification of all design phenomena in nature and
apply this knowledge to novel designs in modern engineering such as vascularization for
self-healing and self-cooling materials for aircraft and tree fins and cavities for heat
transfer enhancement.
