AD-HOC principles of minimum energy expenditure as corollaries of the constructal law the cases of river basins and human vascular systems

In a recent paper [1] Reis showed that both the principles of extremum of entropy production rate, which are often used in the study of complex systems, are corollaries of the Constructal Law. In fact, both follow from the maximization of overall system conductivities, under appropriate constraints....

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Main Author: Reis, A. Heitor (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/20149
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/20149