Adrian Bejan (Non-fiction Micro-blog post 1)

Before I even opened the book, I decided look Bejan up, due to another book my friend had read by him, Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization (which has one of, if not, the most painfully wordy titles I have ever seen). Of course, I also looked up the co-author, Zane J Peder, as well, but he's really not important in this context.

Design in Nature

After finding out that Bejan helped to write this book, my curiosity took me to look at how many books he actually wrote. After some brief Googling...

(Note that it says View 10+ more on the top right corner)

Wow.

Most of the books Bejan write are actually about heat transfer/thermodynamics (he wrote nine books, with one more arriving in 2020), leading me to devise that this is probably a topic that he's really obsessed with. He also wrote a lot of things that are loosely related to his Constructal Law, which I'll explain a few paragraphs down. However, I don't really wanna get caught up with how many or what kinds of books he wrote and/or is writing, so I'll just transition on to his actual life.

Adrian Bejan was born in Galaţi a nice port town that was by the Danube in Romania. He spend his childhood years with his pharmacist mother, Marioara Bejan, and his veterinarian father, Dr. Anghel Bejan. Adrian spent most his free time, exhibiting excellence in drawing. Realizing this, his parents enrolled him into an art school. Age 19, Bejan gets a scholarship that lets him go to US, and more importantly, MIT. There, he was awarded his bachelors AND masters degrees, being a member of the Honors Course in Medical Engineering and finally graduated in, 1975, with his PhD.

The Danube River

After University, Bejan was as a Miller research fellow (which is what people were called if they worked at the program for Basic Research in Science at University of California) in 1976. In 2 short years, he moved to the University of Colorado and joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Adrian Bejan finally settles at Duke University as a full professor in 1984.

I get that you're probably already bored of all this "Bejan worked here" and "Bejan worked there" stuff, so I'm going to move on to what he's most famous for: his Constructal Law.

While Bejan was apparently working on a symposium paper, he came across the idea for his Constructal Law. Now, from what I've gathered, Bejan has done so by comparing the visual aspects of the natural world and the math of physics. I can't really say much else about that without diving into this book.

Now, with my limited knowledge of what I am about to read, I may start out a tad bit skeptical. However, I guess I'll have to give Adrian "Everything can be Explained by Physics" Bejan a shot.