On the nature of thermodynamic extremum principles: The case of maximum efficiency and maximum work

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 88-100

  Jahnke, Thomas ^a   Birjukov, Jan ^b   Mahler, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Control theoretical approach; Extremum principles; Thermodynamic machines

Indexed keywords

EXTREMUM PRINCIPLES; FUNCTIONAL SPACES; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCIES; PARAMETRIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC MACHINES;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 54949119522     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200710275     Document Type: Article

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