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determining the correct strengths, locations, and orientations
of a finite number of magnets and electrodes that will produce
the desired magnetic and electric field force pattern in the melt
of the solid object been created.
Biography: Professor George S. Dulikravich
(Ph.D., Cornell ’79; M.Sc., Minnesota ’75;
Dipl.-Ing., Belgrade ’73) worked as a NRC
Associate Fellow at NASA LeRC, a Visiting
Scientist at DFVLR-Goettingen, Assistant
Professor at University of Texas-Austin (’82– machine species.” Evolution can be put to use in our lifetime
’86), Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University
(’86–’99), Professor at Univ. of Texas at Arlington (’99-’03), and
MME Department Chairman (’03-’09) and Professor (’03–
present) at Florida International University. He has authored
and co-authored over 500 technical publications in diverse
fields involving computational and analytical fluid mechanics,
subsonic, transonic and hypersonic aerodynamics; inverse
design and shape optimization of airfoils, wings and winglets;
theoretical and computational electro-magneto-hydrodynamics
and conjugate heat transfer including solidification; optimiza-
tion of cooling protocols for human organs; acceleration of
iterative algorithms; computational grid generation; multi-
disciplinary aero-thermo-structural inverse problems; design
and constrained optimization in turbomachinery; fluid flow and
heat transfer in networks of micro/nano passages and arrays of
pin-fins, and multi-objective design optimization of chemical
compositions of arbitrary alloys. He is the founder and Editor-
in-Chief of the international journal on Inverse Problems in
Science and Engineering (founded in 1994) and an Associate
Editor of ten additional journals. He is also the founder,
chairman and editor of the sequence of International
Conferences on Inverse Design Concepts and Optimization in
Engineering Sciences (ICIDES) and International Symposium
on Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization (IPDO).
Professor Dulikravich is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Mechanics, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, a Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society, and an
Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics.
Track 10: Heat Transfer and Thermal
Engineering
10-16-1: HEAT TRANSFER AND THERMAL ENGINEERING
PLENARY
Tuesday, November 7, 8:00am–9:45am
Room 7, Tampa Convention Center
Ralph Coats Roe Medal
The Evolution of Everything
(IMECE2017-73556)
Adrian Bejan
Duke University
xxxii Abstract: What is evolution and why does it exist in the
geophysical, biological, social and technological realms – in
short, everywhere? Why is there a time direction – a time arrow
– in the changes we know are happening every moment and
everywhere?
These are questions of physics, about everything. The physics
answer is that nothing lives, flows, moves and morphs unless it
is driven by power and has freedom to change. The power is
destroyed by the flows, and the flow architectures evolve into
configurations that provide progressively greater access for
movement.
The universal natural tendency to ‘evolve’ was placed in
physics by the constructal law (1996). In this lecture I show
why this law is useful to us. We are the evolving “human &
in technology, transportation, urban design, spreading and
collecting, miniaturization, communications, science,
government and the unstoppable march to freedom, access,
wealth and knowledge.
Biography: The Ralph Coats Roe Medal,
established in 1972, recognizes an out-
standing contribution toward a better public
understanding and appreciation of the
engineer’s worth to contemporary society.
Adrian Bejan, Ph.D., J.A. Jones distinguished
professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University in
Durham, N.C., is recognized for permanent contributions to
the public appreciation of the pivotal role of engineering in
an advanced society through outstanding accomplishments
as an engineering scientist and educator, renowned
communicator and prolific writer.
Dr. Bejan has been a member of the faculty at Duke since
1984. His research is in thermodynamics, applied physics,
constructal law, and design and evolution in nature (animate,
inanimate, human). He is the author/co-author of 30 books
and 630 peer-reviewed journal articles.
An ASME Fellow, Dr. Bejan was awarded Honorary Member-
ship in 2011. Previously he received the Society’s Gustus L.
Larson Memorial Award in 1988, James Harry Potter Gold
Medal in 1990, Heat Transfer Memorial Award – Science in
1994, Worcester Reed Warner Medal in 1996, Charles Russ
Richards Memorial Award in 2001 and Edward F. Obert Award
in 2004; and the Max Jakob Memorial Award from ASME’s
Heat Transfer Division and the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers in 1999.
Among his other honors, Dr. Bejan received the Luikov Medal
from the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer in
2006 and the Donald Q. Kern Award from AIChE in 2008. He is
a member of the Academy of Europe, the Romanian Academy
and the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
Dr. Bejan earned his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
in 1971, 1972 and 1975, respectively. He spent two years as a
postdoctoral Fellow at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in
Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bejan
holds 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.