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Title: | Dendritic design as an archetype for growth patterns in Nature: fractal and constructal views |
Authors: | Miguel, A. F. |
Keywords: | dendritic network tree-shaped network lung respiratory tree vascular networks river basins fractal constructal law |
Issue Date: | Feb-2014 |
Publisher: | Frontiers in Physics |
Citation: | Miguel A.F. (2014) Dendritic design as an archetype for growth patterns in Nature: fractal and constructal views. Front. Physics 2:9.doi: 10.3389/fphy.2014.00009 |
Abstract: | The occurrence of configuration (design, shape, structure, rhythm) is a universal phenomenon that occurs in every flow system. Dendritic configuration (or tree-shaped configurations) is ubiquitous in nature and likely to arise in both animate and inanimate flow systems (e.g., lungs and river basins). Why is it so important? Is there a principle from which this configuration can be deduced? In this review paper, we show that these systems own two of the most important properties of fractals that are self-similarity and scaling. Their configuration do not develop by chance. It´s occurrence is a universal phenomenon of physics covered by a principle. Here we also show that the emergence of dendritic configuration in flow systems constitutes a basic supportive flow path along which “order” need to persist is propagated. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10777 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | CGE - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica FIS - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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