Energetics of a simple microscopic heat engine

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Asfaw, Mesfin ^a   Bekele, Mulugeta ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNOT REFRIGERATOR; OPERATING CONDITIONS; QUASISTATIC LIMIT;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; REFRIGERATORS; THERMOANALYSIS;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 28844472977     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056109     Document Type: Article

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