The historical background, research development, and the state-of-the-art of finite time
thermodynamic theory and applications are reviewed from the point of view of both physics …

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

An advanced, practical approach to the first and second laws of thermodynamics Advanced
Engineering Thermodynamics bridges the gap between engineering applications and the …

This book presents the diverse and rapidly expanding field of Entropy Generation
Minimization (EGM), the method of thermodynamic optimization of real devices. The …

Entropy generation minimization (finite time thermodynamics, or thermodynamic
optimization) is the method that combines into simple models the most basic concepts of …

An endoreversible Carnot‐type heat engine is studied under the usual restrictions: no
friction, working substance in internal equilibrium (endoreversibility), no mechanical inertial …

We study the efficiency at maximum power, η*, of engines performing finite-time Carnot
cycles between a hot and a cold reservoir at temperatures T h and T c, respectively. For …

Maximum power performance of an endoreversible non-isothermal chemical engine (NICE)
with simultaneous heat and mass transfer is investigated in this paper. The heat and mass …

Abstract Models of multi-element thermoelectric refrigerator (TER) with radiative heat
transfer law (RHT) and Newtonian heat transfer law (NHT) are established based on finite …

The irreversibilities originating from finite-time and finite-size constraints are important in the
real thermal system optimization. Since classical thermodynamic analysis based on …