Unified Approach to Thermodynamic Optimization of Generic Objective Functions in the Linear Response Regime

While many efforts have been devoted to optimizing the power output for a finite-time thermodynamic process, thermodynamic optimization under realistic situations is not necessarily concerned with power alone; rather, it may be of great relevance to optimize generic objective functions that are comb...

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Main Author: Yan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/5/161