Van der Waals gas as working substance in a Curzon and Ahlborn-Novikov engine

Abstract: Using a van der Waals gas as the working substance the so called Curzon and Ahlborn-Novikov engine is studied. It is shown that some previous results found in the literature of finite time thermodynamics can be written in a more general form, means of this gas and by taking a non linear he...

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Main Author: Delfino Ladino-Luna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2005-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/7/1/108/