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Adrian Bejan | Evolution of Airplanes, from Design in Nature
This video tells the story of how ideas for predicting movement and speed evolved from animals to sports and then to airplanes, showing how thinking…
7 hrs ago
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Forest and Natural Hierarchy, from Design in Nature
The video describes how a piece of ground with the freedom to change arranges trees so that water flows from the ground into the air more effectively…
Dec 11
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Canopy and Branches, from Design in Nature
The video explains how the design of vegetation, from roots to canopy and branches, can be understood by starting with very simple shapes and rules and…
Dec 5
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Trunk, Canopy, Diversity, from Design in Nature
The video draws the trunk and the canopy in profile, sets the coordinate from the tip, and brings in a uniform wind that sees the big, so the drag per…
Nov 22
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Umit Gunes
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Adrian Bejan | Root shape, from Design in Nature
The video asks for the shape of a root that maximizes water production, treating the root as a solid body of revolution in wet soil, with the ground at…
Nov 13
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Umit Gunes
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Adrian Bejan | Vegetation and Hair, from Design in Nature
The video turns to vegetation and hair, asking what flows in a tree, why plants come before animals, and why the drawing of trees in a forest looks so…
Nov 8
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Columns and Skeletons, from Design in Nature
The video follows beams, columns, trusses, and skeletons from dried mud and fired brick to iron bridges, skyscrapers, and concrete, and shows how shape…
Nov 1
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | I beam cross section, from Design in Nature
The video examines a family of drawings spread across a space using two simple moves, tapering and hollowing, and demonstrates how the expense decreases…
Oct 16
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Tapered cantilever beam, from Design in Nature
Under the same loading, deflection, material, and maximum allowable stress, the video demonstrates the effect of changing the drawing from a solid round…
Oct 13
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Umit Gunes
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Adrian Bejan | Tree branches, equality in failure, from Design in Nature
The video explains how the evolution of solid structures follows the same logic as flow systems, aiming for efficiency, adaptability, and survival.
Sep 26
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Access, Contrast, Structure, Stress, from Design in Nature
The video develops the idea of access as the foundation of design, contrasting it with terms like resistance or entropy that are abstract and less…
Sep 18
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Umit Gunes
Adrian Bejan | Energy store & release motion, from Design in Nature
The video explores the concept of store-and-release energy locomotion, demonstrating how certain animals achieve extraordinary jumps by compressing…
Sep 11
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Umit Gunes
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