From local force-flux relationships to internal dissipations and their impact on heat engine performance: The illustrative case of a thermoelectric generator

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

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Apertet, Y ^a   Ouerdane, H ^b,c   Goupil, C ^b,c   Lecoeur, Ph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROKEN TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY; EFFICIENCY AT MAXIMUM POWER; FINITE TIME THERMODYNAMICS; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; LINEAR IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; PRINCIPLE OF ENERGY CONSERVATION; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; THERMOELECTRIC RESPONSE;

THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; THERMOELECTRICITY;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 84884148485     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.022137     Document Type: Article

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