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Sylvie Lorente

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Sylvie Lorente is a French mechanical engineer known for her research on the thermodynamics and fluid mechanics of porous media, and in particular for her work on the constructal theory of flows and their dynamic evolution. She is College of Engineering Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, professor at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria.