Sitting around the (constructal) campfire

In this article, Brian Resnick quote Prof. Adrian Bejan in order to provide us with some good advices on building a successful pyre, and discusses the processes tooking place while sitting around the campfire.


In a study published in 2015 in one of the Nature Scientific Reports,  Professor Adrian Bejan, effectively showed that the best fires share the same design pattern: they are roughly as tall as they are wide.



Brian Resnick, Campfires, explained, Vox.com, July 20, 2016.
Ken Kingery, The Shape of a Perfect Fire, Duke.edu, June 8, 2015.
Adrian Bejan, Why humans build fires shaped the same way, Nature, Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 11270 (2015), doi:10.1038/srep11270.

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Published on July 21, 2016 12:40
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