Professor Adrian Bejan
Adrian
Bejan, Ph.D., HMASME, 16 Doctorates honoris causa is
J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering and
Materials Science, Duke University.
His latest book is
The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything.
Adrian’s research covers a wide range of topics in thermodynamics, heat
transfer, fluid mechanics, convection, and porous media. More recently,
he developed the
constructal law of design in nature.
He is ranked since 2001 among the 100 most highly cited
authors worldwide in engineering (all fields, all countries), the
Institute for Scientific Information. He has received 16
honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.
Adrian is the author of 25 books and 555+ peer-referred
articles.
His
H-index is 47.
He coauthored
Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in
Biology,
Physics, Technology, and Social Organization,
Thermal Design and Optimization,
Design with Constructal Theory,
Convection in Porous Media, and
Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies,
authored
Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics,
Heat Transfer,
Convection Heat Transfer,
Entropy Generation Minimization: The Method of Thermodynamic
Optimization of Finite-Size Systems and Finite-Time Processes,
and
Shape and Structure, from Engineering to Nature,
and coedited
Thermodynamic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems.
Adrian earned his BS (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 1971
and his MS (honors) in Mechanical Engineering at MIT
in 1972. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975.
He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
in 1987 and then elected to
Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(highest rank) in 2011.
Watch
TEDxBucharest — Adrian Bejan,
A New “Constructal” Law of Nature?, and
Adrian Bejan, Constructal Law & Design in Nature, ASME, 14 Nov.
2011.
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