Carnot efficiency: Why?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 392, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 3513-3517

  Lucia, Umberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carnot; Efficiency; Entropy; Irreversibility

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CARNOT; CARNOT EFFICIENCY; FINITE SIZE; FINITE TIME; IRREVERSIBILITY; THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS; UPPER LIMITS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84878394174     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.04.020     Document Type: Article

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