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15.06.2018 No. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE No. 2 No. 3 No. 4

Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science

THE XTH CONSTRUCTAL LAW AND SECOND LAW CONFERENCE AT THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY
15-16 MAY, 2017, IN BUCHAREST

 

contents

1.

*** Foreword

 97

     
2.

Jack CHUN, The genesis of the constructal law as a scientific revolution

 99

     
3.

André Luis RAZERA, Marcelo Risso ERRERA, Elizaldo Domingues DOS SANTOS, Liércio André ISOLDI, Luiz Alberto Oliveira ROCHA, Constructal network of scientific publications, coauthorship and citations

 105

     
4.

Marcelo Risso ERRERA, Constructal Law in light of philosophy of science

 111

     
5.

Sylvie LORENTE, The Constructal Law as an approach to address energy efficiency in the urban fabric

 117

     
6.

Alexandru M. MOREGA, Alin A. DOBRE, Mihaela MOREGA, Alina SÃNDOIU, Constructal optimization of magnetic field source in magnetic drug targeting therapy

 123

     
7.

Ahmed WAHEED, Ansam ADIL, Ali RAZZAQ, The optimal spacing between diamond-shaped tubes cooled by free convection using constructal theory

 129

     
8.

María SANTOS BLANCO, Flow is pleasing and reminds us how nature works

 135

     
9.

Rafa³ SIEDLECKI, Daniel PAPLA, Agnieszka BEM, A logistic law of growth as a base for methods of company’s life cycle phases forecasting

 141

     
10.

Huijun FENG, Lingen CHEN, Zhihui XIE, Constructal optimizations for line-to-line fluid networks in a triangular area by releasing the tube angle constraint

 147

     
11.

Olayinka O. ADEWUMI, Tunde BELLO-OCHENDE, Josua P. MEYER, Analysis of the thermal performance of single and multi-layered microchannels with fixed volume constraint

 154

     
12.

Tanimu JATAU, Tunde BELLO-OCHENDE, Constructal design of flat plate solar collector

 160

     
13.

Wei FU, Hua LIN, Xinzhi LIU, Houlei ZHANG, Constructal design of molten salt flow and heat transfer in horizontal hollow disc-shaped heaters

 166

     
14.

James A. WILLS, Tunde BELLO-OCHENDE, Second law analysis and constructal design of Stirling engine heat exchanger (regenerator) for medium temperature difference (MDT)

 172

     
15.

Mark HEYER, The Constructal theory of information

 178

     
16.

Alex J. FOWLER, Geometric optimization of a tube bank heat exchanger in a slow moving free stream

 183

     
17.

Olayinka O. ADEWUMI, Andrew ADEBUSOYE, Adetunji ADENIYAN, Nkem OGBONNA, Ayowole A. OYEDIRAN, Scale analysis and asymptotic solution for natural convection over a heated flat plate at high Prandtl numbers

 189

     
18.

João Paulo Silva LIMA, Luiz Alberto Oliveira ROCHA, Elizaldo Domingues dos SANTOS, Mauro de Vasconcellos REAL, Liércio André ISOLDI, Constructal design and numerical modeling applied to stiffened steel plates submitted to elasto-plastic buckling

 195

     
19.

George STANESCU, Ene BARBU, Valeriu VILAG, Theodora ANDREESCU, Constructal approach on the feasibility of compressed air temperature control by evaporative cooling in gas turbine power plants

 201

     
20.

Cãtãlina IORDAN, Daniel-Georgel PREDA, From constructal theory up to fundamental principles of helical geometrodynamics

 207

21.

Umberto LUCIA, Giulia GRISOLIA, Constructal Law and ion transfer in normal and cancer cells

 213

22.

Stephen PÉRIN, Bimodal IT: Beyond the hype with the Constructal Law?

 219

23.

Patrick KALASON, Mariem ESSAIDI, Touria ABOUSSAOUIRA, Constructal interdisciplinary and the concomitance of the dynamic variations of the living to cogito-dynamics

 225

     
24.

Masoud ASADI, Mohamed M. AWAD, Geometrical optimization of louver-fin arrays by using Constructal Law at low Reynolds number regime

 231

     
25.

Emad M.S. EL-SAID, Mohamed ABDULAZIZ, Mohamed M. AWAD, Thermodynamic performance evaluation for helical plate heat exchanger based on second law analysis

 237

     
26.

Vinicius R. PEPE, Luiz A. O. ROCHA, Antonio F. MIGUEL, Optimality to flow and design of branching ducts

 243

     
27.

Stoian PETRESCU, Monica COSTEA, Bogdan BORCILA, Valeria PETRESCU, Romi BOLOHAN, Silvia DANES, Florin DANES, Michel FEIDT, Georgeta BOTEZ, George STANESCU, What is quantum biological thermodynamics with finite speed of the cardio-pulmonary system: a discovery or an invention?

 249

     
28.

Alexandru M. MOREGA, Juan ORDONEZ, Mihaela MOREGA, Lucian Pîslaru-Dãnescu, Alin A. DOBRE, Compact, interdigitated constructal design applied to supercapacitor systems

 255

     
29.

Laurentiu OANCEA, Timur MAMUT, Camelia BACU, Eden MAMUT, Ioan STAMATIN, Optimal fluid flow channel architectures in bipolar plates dedicated to the operation of fuel cells in microgravity conditions

 261

     
30.

Antonio HEITOR REIS, Constructal Law, and the albedo and global warming conundrum

 267

31.

Viorel BADESCU, Tudor BARACU, Rita AVRAM, Roxana GRIGORE, Monica PATRASCU, On the design and optimization of constructal networks of heat exchangers by considering entropy generation minimization and thermoeconomics

 273

     
32.

Kassiana RIBEIRO, Juan C. ORDONEZ, José V.C. VARGAS, André B. MARIANO, Constructal design of a non-invasive temperature based mass flow rate sensor for algae photobioreactors

 279

     
33.

Allen E. REAM, John C. SLATTERY, Paul G.A. CIZMAS, A reduced-order methane-air combustion mechanism that satisfies the differential entropy inequality

 285

     
34.

Helene CARA CHESTER, Immigrant entrepreneurship: a process illustrating Constructal Law

 291

35.

Tadeu Mendonca FAGUNDES, Neda YAGHOOBIAN, Luiz Alberto Oliveira ROCHA, Juan Carlos ORDONEZ, Constructal design of branched conductivity pathways inserted in a trapezoidal body: A numerical investigation of the effect of body shape on optimal pathway structure

 297

     
36.

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ovidiu PANEA, Natural flows: e-Commerce, cyber-, bitcoin, blockchain

 303

     
37. Adrian BEJAN, Constructal Law, twenty years after
 

309

     

Proc. Ro. Acad., Series A, Volume 19, Special Issue, pp. 95-312, Bucharest, 2018

 
 
 
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