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Adrian Bejan (24 September 1948, Galaţi, Romania) is an American professor and proponent of the constructal theory of design and evolution in nature. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University.

Early life

Adrian Bejan was born on 24 September 1948, in Galaţi, a port town located at the Danube in Moldavia, Romania. His mother, Marioara Bejan (1914-1998), was a pharmacist. His father, Dr. Anghel Bejan, was a veterinarian. Bejan showed an early talent in drawing and his parents enrolled him in art school. He also excelled in basketball, which earned him a position on the Romanian national basketball team. As a member of that team he traveled to Bulgaria and Hungary. At age 20 he participated in a math competition. The top six finalists were awarded an application form for an American university. Bejan was allowed to apply for admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was accepted in December 1968 and was allowed to leave for the united States in February 1969 at a time when travel was severely restricted by the communist government of Romania.

Education

Adrian Bejan received all his degrees from MIT: BS 1971 (Honors Course), MS 1972 (Honors Course), and PhD in 1975, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

During 1976-1978 he was a Miller Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science.

Bejan was appointed full professor with tenure at Duke University in 1984. He was awarded the J.A. Jones distinguished professorship in 1989.

Scientific career

Bejan has published 530 peer-reviewed articles and 24 books. He pioneered numerous original methods in science, such as the constructal law of design and evolution in nature, entropy generation minimization, scale analysis of convection, heatlines and masslines, transition to turbulence, and designed porous media.

He is listed among the top 100 most widely cited engineering authors in the world (all disciplines, all countries, living and deceased).

He was awarded 16 doctorates Honoris Causa from universities in 11 countries.

Books by Adrian Bejan

  • A. Bejan, Entropy Generation through Heat and Fluid Flow, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982, 264 pages, 139 illustrations, 223 references.
  • A. Bejan, Convection Heat Transfer, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1984, 492 pages, 148 illustrations, 387 references.
  • A. Bejan, Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1988, 782 pages, 277 illustrations, 635 references.
    Romanian translation: A. Bejan, Termodinamica Tehnica Avansata, Editura Tehnica, Bucharest, Romania, 1996, 848 pages, 277 illustrations, 635 references.
  • D. A. Nield and A. Bejan, Convection in Porous Media, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992, 425 pages, 149 illustrations, 692 references.
  • A. Bejan, Heat Transfer, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1993, 698 pages, 459 illustrations, 383 references.
    Portuguese translation: A. Bejan, Transferencia de Calor, Edgard Blücher, São Paulo, Brazil, 1996, 540 pages, 459 illustrations, 383 references.
    Korean translation: A. Bejan, Heat Transfer, Cheong Moon Gak, Seoul, Korea, 1996, 744 pages, 459 illustrations, 383 references.
  • A. Bejan, Convection Heat Transfer, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995, 652 pages, 228 illustrations, 543 references.
  • A. Bejan, Entropy Generation Minimization, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1996, 362 pages, 230 illustrations, 438 references.
  • A. Bejan, G. Tsatsaronis and M. Moran, Thermal Design and Optimization, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996, 540 pages, 110 illustrations, 189 references.
  • A. Bejan, Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997, 888 pages, 324 illustrations, 612 references.
  • D. A. Nield and A. Bejan, Convection in Porous Media, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999, 546 pages, 164 illustrations, 1600 references.
  • A. Bejan, P.Vadasz and D. G. Kröger, Eds., Energy and the Environment, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1999, 276 pages, 129 illustrations, 333 references.
  • A. Bejan and E. Mamut, Eds., Thermodynamic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1999, 480 pages, 151 illustrations, 589 references.
  • A. Bejan, Shape and Structure, from Engineering to Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000, 343 pages, 191 illustrations, 311 references.
    Romanian translation: A. Bejan, Forma si Structura, de la Inginerie la Natura, Editura Academiei, Bucharest, 2005, 330 pages, 191 illustrations, 311 references.
  • A. Bejan and A. D. Kraus, Eds., Heat Transfer Handbook, Wiley, New York, 2003, 1479 pages.
  • D. B. Ingham, A. Bejan, E. Mamut and I. Pop, Eds., Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordecht, The Netherlands, 2004, 507 pages, 173 illustrations, 2073 references.
  • A. Bejan, I. Dincer, S. Lorente, A. F. Miguel and A. H. Reis, Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies, Springer-Verlag, 2004, 408 pages, 336 illustrations, 577 references.
  • A. Bejan, Convection Heat Transfer, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 2004, 694 pages, 207 illustrations, 759 references.
  • A. Bejan and S. Lorente, La Loi Constructale, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2005, 110 pages, 25 illustrations, 113 references.
  • D. A. Nield and A. Bejan, Convection in Porous Media, Third Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006, 640 pages, 173 illustrations, 3082 references.
  • A. Bejan, Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 2006, 920 pages, 352 illustrations, 764 references.
  • A. Bejan, S. Lorente, A. F. Miguel and A. H. Reis, Along with Constructal Theory, UNIL ∙ FGSE Workshop Series No. 1, J. Hernandez and M. Cosinschi, eds., University of Lausanne, Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment, 2006, 204 pages, 96 figures, 184 references.
  • A. Bejan and G. W. Merkx, Eds., Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics, Springer, New York, 2007, 350 pages, 141 illustrations, 521 references.
  • A. Bejan and S. Lorente, Design with Constructal Theory, Wiley, Hoboken, 2008, 551 pages, 322 illustrations, 348 references.
  • A. Bejan, S. Lorente, A. F. Miguel and A. H. Reis, Eds., Constructal Human Dynamics, Security and Sustainability, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2009, 177 pages, 81 illustrations, 250 references.
  • A. Bejan and J. Peder Zane. Design in Nature. How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization, Doubleday, 2012, 304 pages.

Bejan numbers

  • Bejan number (Be), proposed as name for the dimensionless ratio of fluid friction irreversibility divided by heat transfer irreversibility, in convection (S. Paoletti, F. Rispoli and E. Sciubba, Calculation of exergetic losses in compact heat exchanger passages, ASME AES-Vol. 10-2, 1989, pp. 21–29).
  • Bejan number (Be), proposed as name for the dimensionless group ΔP·L / (μα) in forced convection, electronic cooling, contact melting, and second law analysis of heat transfer (S. Petrescu, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 37, 1994, p. 1283).

External links

References

  1. ^ Duke Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Adrian Bejan's page.
  2. Bejan, Adrian (1998). "Questions in Fluid Mechanics: Natural Tree-Shaped Flows". Journal of fluids engineering. 120: 429.
  3. Bejan, Adrian; Zane, J. Peder (2012). Design in Nature. How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization. Double Day. ISBN 978-0-385-53461-1.
  4. "Meet Adrian Bejan". North Carolina Public Radio. Monday, August 16, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. Adrian Bejan's ISI page
  6. A. Bejan and S. Lorente, The constructal law and the thermodynamics of flow systems with configuration, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 47, 2004, pp. 3203-3214. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2004.02.007.
  7. A. Bejan and S. Lorente, Constructal theory of generation of configuration in nature and engineering, J. Appl. Phys., 100, 2006, 041301. doi:10.1063/1.2221896.
  8. A. H. Reis, Constructal theory: from engineering to physics, and how flow systems develop shape and structure, Appl. Mech. Rev., 59, 2006, pp. 269-281. doi:10.1115/1.2204075.
  9. A. Bejan and S. Lorente, The constructal law of design and evolution in nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365, 2010, pp. 1335-1347.

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