Design Evolution And The Law

Author : Adrian Bejan,J. Peder Zane
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307744340

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Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan,J. Peder Zane Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.

Author : Vladimir Samoylov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811966281

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Design Evolution and The Law by Vladimir Samoylov Pdf

This book focuses on product design which is evolving conceptually and practically with advances in technology. Product design is no longer solely about product stylization and decoration, but rather about providing a holistic product experience for the consumer. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, product designs will increasingly communicate not only to our eyes, but to our other senses as well. This book examines the frameworks for the protection of product designs in New Zealand and Australia and evaluates the appropriateness of expanding legal mechanisms for the accommodation of product design evolution. The value of more holistic design protection is balanced against other important considerations such as the "right to repair". The book not only anticipates the extent to which product design will cater to senses other than visual, but also provides a novel framework (with reference to industry examples) for discerning originality in such work for the purposes of copyright. This book also makes suggestions for how designs can be protected from foreseeable infringement (analogous to copyright infringement of music and movies on file sharing networks) resulting from future advances in technologies such as 3D printing and virtual reality. .

Author : Vladimir Samoylov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811966279

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Design Evolution and The Law by Vladimir Samoylov Pdf

This book focuses on product design which is evolving conceptually and practically with advances in technology. Product design is no longer solely about product stylization and decoration, but rather about providing a holistic product experience for the consumer. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, product designs will increasingly communicate not only to our eyes, but to our other senses as well. This book examines the frameworks for the protection of product designs in New Zealand and Australia and evaluates the appropriateness of expanding legal mechanisms for the accommodation of product design evolution. The value of more holistic design protection is balanced against other important considerations such as the “right to repair". The book not only anticipates the extent to which product design will cater to senses other than visual, but also provides a novel framework (with reference to industry examples) for discerning originality in such work for the purposes of copyright. This book also makes suggestions for how designs can be protected from foreseeable infringement (analogous to copyright infringement of music and movies on file sharing networks) resulting from future advances in technologies such as 3D printing and virtual reality.

Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030340094

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Freedom and Evolution by Adrian Bejan Pdf

The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. Written for wide audiences of all ages, including readers interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas, the book shows how many “design change” concepts acquire a solid scientific footing and how they exist with the evolution of nature, society, technology and science.

Author : Luiz A.O. Rocha,Sylvie Lorente,Adrian Bejan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461450498

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Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design by Luiz A.O. Rocha,Sylvie Lorente,Adrian Bejan Pdf

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.

Author : William A. Dembski
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083082314X

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Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski Pdf

In this book William A. Dembski brilliantly argues that intelligent design provides a crucial link between science and theology. This is a pivotal work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls "one of the most important of the `design' theorists."

Author : Stuart Pullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9780976639404

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Intelligent Design Or Evolution? by Stuart Pullen Pdf

This volume examines issues associated with chemical evolution, the origin of life, and the evolution of molecular knowledge. It develops statistical models to describe the evolution of the first genes and proteins, but the fact that naturalistic laws fail to explain the origin of life implies that life was created.

Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Natural history
ISBN : BL:A0022683351

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Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature by William Paley Pdf

Author : Adrian Bejan,Sylvie Lorente
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471998167

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Design with Constructal Theory by Adrian Bejan,Sylvie Lorente Pdf

Design course on the universal principle of configurations in nature and engineering-the constructal law Design with Constructal Theory offers a revolutionary new approach based on physics for understanding and predicting the designs that arise in nature and engineering, from the tree and the forest to the cooling of electronics, urban design, decontamination, and vascular smart materials. This book shows how you can use the method of constructal theory to design human-made systems in order to reduce trial and error and increase the system performance. First developed in the late 1990s, constructal theory holds that flow architecture arises from the natural evolutionary tendency to generate greater flow access in time and in flow configurations that are free to morph. It unites flow systems with solid mechanical structures, which are viewed as systems for the flow of stresses. Constructal theory unites nature with engineering, and helps us generate novel designs across the board, from high-density packages to vascular materials with new functionalities (self-healing, self-cooling), and from tree-shaped heat exchangers to svelte fluid-flow and solid structures. Design with Constructal Theory starts with basic principles and then shows how these principles are applied to understanding and designing increasingly complex systems. Problems and exercises at the end of each chapter give you an opportunity to use constructal theory to solve actual design problems. This book is based on a design course developed by the two authors for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students at Duke University and other universities all over the world. With the authors' expert guidance, students and professionals in mechanical, civil, environmental, chemical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering will understand natural systems, and then practice design as science, by relying on constructal strategies to pursue and discover novel and effective designs.

Author : Frank S. Ravitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139492102

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Marketing Intelligent Design by Frank S. Ravitch Pdf

Recently a new battle has emerged between science and religion. The battle has focused on intelligent design (ID) and the numerous legal, philosophical and educational concerns surrounding it. Resolution of these concerns centers on two questions: Is ID science? And is ID religion? Despite the fact that ID does not meet the standards of scientific rigor, ID proponents have been able to create a remarkably well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse. Both the ID movement and some of its most vociferous opponents have a vested interest in suggesting that science, especially evolutionary biology, and religion are incompatible. This book presents a philosophical and legal counterpoint by demonstrating the compatibility between religion and evolutionary biology and the incompatibility between ID and mainstream science.

Author : Christian Schubert,Georg Von Wangenheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134187140

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Evolution and Design of Institutions by Christian Schubert,Georg Von Wangenheim Pdf

This book comprises nine papers approaching designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles. While the evolution of spontaneous institutions is quite well understood in economic thinking, the development of consciously designed institutions has been examined much less. In new institutional economics, public choice, and law and economics the interaction between changing preferences and spontaneously evolving institutions on the one hand and the evolution of designed institutions (as, e.g., legal systems) on the other hand has largely been ignored. A number of top class international contributors have been assembled to study this phenomenon including Viktor Vanberg, Bruno Frey, Elinor Ostrom and Francesco Parisi.

Author : Thomas Y. Lo,Paul K. Chien,Eric H. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1936599813

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Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell by Thomas Y. Lo,Paul K. Chien,Eric H. Anderson Pdf

Are life and the universe a mindless accident--the blind outworking of laws governing cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution? That's the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way. But what does the science actually say? Drawing on recent discoveries in astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, and paleontology, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell shows how the latest scientific evidence suggests a very different story.

Author : Liz Swan,Richard Gordon,Joseph Seckbach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400741560

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Origin(s) of Design in Nature by Liz Swan,Richard Gordon,Joseph Seckbach Pdf

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology. This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

Author : E. V. R. Kojonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030696832

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The Compatibility of Evolution and Design by E. V. R. Kojonen Pdf

This book challenges the widespread assumption of the incompatibility of evolution and the biological design argument. Kojonen analyzes the traditional arguments for incompatibility, and argues for salvaging the idea of design in a way that is fully compatible with evolutionary biology. Relating current views to their intellectual history, Kojonen steers a course that avoids common pitfalls such as the problems of the God of the gaps, the problem of natural evil, and the traditional Humean and Darwinian critiques. The resulting deconstruction of the opposition between evolution and design has the potential to transform this important debate.

Author : Paul Craig,Gráinne de Búrca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199592975

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The Evolution of EU Law by Paul Craig,Gráinne de Búrca Pdf

Previous edition, 1st, published in 1999.