How much work can be extracted from a radiation reservoir?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 410, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-119

  Badescu, Viorel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Endoreversible operation; Radiation reservoirs; Reversible operation; Upper bound efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION;

CARNOT EFFICIENCY; ENDOREVERSIBLE; GEOMETRIC FACTORS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; REVERSIBLE OPERATION; STATE PARAMETERS; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER; UPPER BOUND;

RADIATION;

EID: 84901461925     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.05.024     Document Type: Article

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