Unified theory for inhomogeneous thermoelectric generators and coolers including multistage devices

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

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gerstenmaier, York Christian ^a   Wachutka, Gerhard ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COOLING POWER; ELECTRIC POWER; FUNCTIONAL OPTIMIZATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD; LOCAL OPTIMIZATIONS; MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MAXIMIZATION PROBLEM; MULTISTAGE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION DOMAIN; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBSIDIARY CONDITION; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MATERIAL PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRIC CONVERTER; THERMOELECTRIC EQUATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; UNIFIED THEORY;

COOLING SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84868381577     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056703     Document Type: Article

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