= The Physiological Principle of Minimum Work. I. The Vascular System and the Cost of Blood Volume by Cecil D. Murray
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12, 207–214. Original byline: Cecil D. Murray, Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1084489/
https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/1926/murray1926a.pdf
Inspected original scanned paper, printed pp. 209–212, equations 1–7: fixed-flow pumping cost, volume maintenance cost, radius optimization and cubic flow-radius law. The concept article supplies the branching consequence and an equal-daughter example.
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