Performance of chemical engines with a mass leak

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1595-1600

  Chen, Lingen ^a   Sun, Fengrui ^a   Wu, Chih ^b  

^a Naval Academy of Engineering   (China)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; THERMODYNAMICS;

FINITE RATE MASS TRANSFER; ISOTHERMAL CHEMICAL ENGINES; LINEAR MASS TRANSFER LAW;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 0032493221     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/31/13/014     Document Type: Article

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