Model of optimized solar heat engine operating on Mars

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1713-1721

  Badescu, V ^a   Popescu, G ^b   Feidt, M ^c  

^a Mechanical Engineering Faculty   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARNOT CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING;

ENDOREVERSIBLE; MARS; SOLAR HEAT ENGINE;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 0033339249     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(99)00064-3     Document Type: Article

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