Tree-Shaped Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

Provides an up-to-date review of tree (dendritic) flow structures in either natural and engineered systems

Each chapter is accompanied by illustrative examples
The only book entirely devoted to tree-shaped fluid flow and heat transfer

Inhalt
1 I Tree-Shaped Flow Networks in Nature.- II Tree-Shaped Flow Networks in Engineered Systems.- III References.- 2 I Hess-Murray's law revisited.- II Generalizing Hess-Murray's law.- III Tree-shaped networks for fluid flow and heat conduction.- IV Optimality and design in natural systems.- V References.- 3 I Aerosol particles and the airway tree.- II Deposition mechanism for aerosols particles.- III Airflow and particle transport in the respiratory tree.- IV References.- 4 I T-shaped Assembly of Fins.- II Y-shaped Assembly of Fins.- III TY Assembly of Fins.- IV Constructal Design of Complex Assembly of Fins.- V References.- 5 ITrapezoidal Basement.- II Optimization Applying Genetic Algorithm (GA).- III Cylindrical Basement.- IV Best Geometries Determined by Exhaustive Search Method.- V Best geometries determined by Genetic Algorithm (GA).- VI References.- 6 I. Isothermal Elemental Open Cavity.- II The First Construct: T-Shaped Cavity.- III Y-Shaped Cavity.- IV Second Construct: H-Shaped Cavity.- V Giving Freedom To Morph.- VI References.- 7 I Y-Shaped High Thermal Conductivity Pathways.- II Final Remarks.- III References.