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Over the last decades, the requirements of the industry has been more and more driven toward incremental performances parallel to a reduction in the dimensions of the components that realise the systems.
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Lorenzini, G., Moretti, S., Conti, A. (2011). General Introduction. In: Fin Shape Thermal Optimization Using Bejan’s Constructal Theory. Synthesis Lectures on Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79333-2_1
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