Brownian micro-engines and refrigerators in a spatially periodic temperature field: Heat flow and performances

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 352, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 286-290

  Ai, Bao Quan ^a   Wang, Liqiu ^b   Liu, Liang Gang ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Heat flow; Thermal motor

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; EFFICIENCY; HEAT ENGINES; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REFRIGERATORS;

BROWNIAN PARTICLES; CARNOT EFFICIENCY; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCES (COP); EXTERNAL LOADS; MICRO-ENGINE; SAWTOOTH POTENTIAL; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMAL MOTORS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33644973660     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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