The Genesis of the Constructual Law as a Scientific Revolution

This paper uncovers the genesis of a scientist’s discovery of the constructal law as a scientific revolution from its fermentation to the official formulation. Exploring different models of creative discovery, I reconstruct Bejan’s discovery process, documented in his two books, as a case study. I conclude that it is illuminative to decipher the subjective dimension that underlies the objective formulation of the law, where something crucial, called the chance-constraint, can be identified, which has been activated in Bejan’s personal history long before the scientific law was officially formulated by him.