Symmetry is not always prefect

✍ Scribed by Liang Luo; Boming Yu; Jianchao Cai; Maofei Mei

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0017-9310
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.06.003

✦ Synopsis

This paper discusses the effect of bifurcation structures on flow resistance of the two-bifurcation network, which satisfies Murray's law. The asymmetrical and symmetrical two-bifurcation networks with the same number and diameter of the terminal branches are compared, and the results show that the symmetrical two-bifurcation network is not the best for transport in it.