On the thermodynamic treatment of diffusion-like economic commodity flows

International Journal of Exergy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-117

  Nuwayhid, Rida Y ^a   Jaber, Mohamad Y ^b   Rosen, Marc A ^c   Sassine, Georges P ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

entropy; exergy; price; production system; quality; thermodynamics; uncoupled flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846370477     PISSN: 17428297     EISSN: 17428300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2006.008328     Document Type: Article

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