Thermodynamic efficiency at maximum power

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Van Den Broeck, C ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-T1/T0; MAXIMUM POWER; TEMPERATURES T0;

HEAT ENGINES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 27744477497     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.190602     Document Type: Article

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