... on constructal theory by various authors covering the fields of heat and mass transfer in engineered systems, inanimate flow structures (river basins, global circulations) living structures, social organization, and economics are reviewed. The relation between the constructal law and the thermodynamic...

...V. A. F. Costa Heatlines were proposed in 1983 by Kimura and Bejan (1983) as adequate tools for visualization and analysis of convection heat transfer. The masslines, their equivalent to apply to convection mass transfer, were proposed in 1987 by Trevisan and Bejan. These visualization and analysis...

... processes attached to it as an individual entity, is the basis of the book’s contents. Three major areas have been identified in the thermal conversion of solids and addressed individually with simulation methods: heat and mass transfer interaction between solid, liquid, and gaseous phases in a particle...

... transfer Bi m Biot number for mass transfer Cp specific heat at constant pressure d height of the Benard’s cell Du Dufour Coefficient D mass diffusivity coefficient D ′ thermal diffusion coefficient E Energy function...