Effect of heat leak and finite thermal capacity on the optimal configuration of a two-heat-reservoir heat engine for another linear heat transfer law

Entropy

Volumn 5, Issue 5 SPEC., 2003, Pages 519-530

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

^a NAVAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite Time Thermodynamics; Heat Engine; Optimal Configuration

Indexed keywords

HEAT ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

FINITE TIME THERMODYNAMICS; HEAT LEAK; LINEAR HEAT TRANSFER LAW; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 11144255826     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e5050519     Document Type: Article

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