Finite-Time Thermodynamics

• Autres auteurs: Berry, R. Stephen (Éditeur intellectuel), Salamon, Peter (Éditeur intellectuel), Andresen, Bjarne (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Sujets: Economics, finance, business & management; macroentropy; microentropy; endoreversible engine; reversible computing; Landauer's principle; piston motion optimization; endoreversible thermodynamics; stirling engine; irreversibility; power; efficiency; optimization; generalized radiative heat transfer law; optimal motion path; maximum work output; elimination method; finite time thermodynamics; thermodynamics; economics; optimal processes; n/a; averaged; heat transfer; cyclic mode; simulation; modeling; reconstruction; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; entropy production; contact temperature; quantum thermodynamics; maximum power; shortcut to adiabaticity; quantum friction; Otto cycle; quantum engine; quantum refrigerator; finite-time thermodynamics; sulfuric acid decomposition; tubular plug-flow reactor; entropy generation rate; SO2 yield; multi-objective optimization; optimal control; thermodynamic cycles; thermodynamic length; hydrogen atom; nano-size engines; a-thermal cycle; heat engines; cooling; very long timescales; slow time; ideal gas law; new and modified variables; Silicon-Germanium alloys; minimum of thermal conductivity; efficiency of thermoelectric systems; minimal energy dissipation; radiative energy transfer; radiative entropy transfer; two-stream grey atmosphere; energy flux density; entropy flux density; generalized winds; conservatively perturbed equilibrium; extreme value; momentary equilibrium; information geometry of thermodynamics; thermodynamic curvature; critical phenomena; binary fluids; van der Waals equation; quantum heat engine; carnot cycle; otto cycle; multiobjective optimization; Pareto front; stability; maximum power regime; entropy behavior; biophysics; biochemistry; dynamical systems; diversity; complexity; path information; calorimetry; entropy flow; biological communities; reacting systems
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The theory around the concept of finite time describes how processes of any nature can be optimized in situations when their rate is required to be non-negligible, i.e., they must come to completion in a finite time. What the theory makes explicit is "the cost of haste". Intuitively, it is...