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Adrian Bejan is an American professor who has made contributions to modern thermodynamics and developed what he calls the constructal law. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University and author of the 2016 book The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything.

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Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Design, Example, Flows, Systems, Two

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Access, Chance, Design, Designs, Flow, See

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

Flow, Live, Size, System, Time, Way

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Accident, Based, Creative, Discovery, Serendipity, Unforeseen

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.

Amount, Flight, Flying, Impact, Running, Swimming

The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

Among, Animal, Different, Inanimate, Space

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