Miguel, Antonio F.; Bejan, Adrian - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 5, pp. 727-731
Pattern formation and self-organization are phenomena that occur across the board, in animate and inanimate systems. In this paper, we rely on the constructal law to explain the generation of patterns (shapes, structures) in aggregates of organisms–pedestrian crowds and stony corals. In...