Heatlines (1983) versus synergy (1998)
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2015-01-01
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. A picture is worth a thousand words. This article is about a picture known as "heatlines" since 1983, and "synergy" since 1998. Both concepts, heatlines and synergy, are about visualizing the physics of convection, which is the combination (superposition) of heat conduction lines and enthalpy flow lines over a material in motion. Heatlines and synergy are reviewed here comparatively. This comparison reveals that synergy is a remake of heatlines, and that synergy has no physical connection with heat transfer enhancement. At bottom, it has become a lot easier to take an existing idea change some key words and drawings and publish the old idea as new.
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Bejan, A (2015). Heatlines (1983) versus synergy (1998). International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 81. pp. 654–658. 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.10.056 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15217.
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Adrian Bejan
Professor Bejan was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal 2018 and the Humboldt Research Award 2019. His research covers engineering science and applied physics: thermodynamics, heat transfer, convection, design, and evolution in nature.
He is ranked among the top 0.01% of the most cited and impactful world scientists (and top 10 in Engineering world wide) in the 2019 citations impact database created by Stanford University’s John Ioannidis, in PLoS Biology. He is the author of 30 books and 700 peer-referred articles. His h-index is 111 with 92,000 citations on Google Scholar. He received 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.
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