05220nam 2201453z- 450 991061946830332120231214132917.03-0365-4950-1(CKB)5670000000391591(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93182(EXLCZ)99567000000039159120202210d2022 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFinite-Time ThermodynamicsMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20221 electronic resource (368 p.)3-0365-4949-8 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 quite obvious that you drive your car differently if you want to reach your destination as quickly as possible as opposed to the case when you are running out of gas. Finite-time thermodynamics quantifies such opposing requirements and may provide the optimal control to achieve the best compromise. The theory was initially developed for heat engines (steam, Otto, Stirling, a.o.) and for refrigerators, but it has by now evolved into essentially all areas of dynamic systems from the most abstract ones to the most practical ones. The present collection shows some fascinating current examples.Economics, finance, business & managementbicsscmacroentropymicroentropyendoreversible enginereversible computingLandauer's principlepiston motion optimizationendoreversible thermodynamicsstirling engineirreversibilitypowerefficiencyoptimizationgeneralized radiative heat transfer lawoptimal motion pathmaximum work outputelimination methodfinite time thermodynamicsthermodynamicseconomicsoptimal processesaveragedheat transfercyclic modesimulationmodelingreconstructionnonequilibrium thermodynamicsentropy productioncontact temperaturequantum thermodynamicsmaximum powershortcut to adiabaticityquantum frictionOtto cyclequantum enginequantum refrigeratorfinite-time thermodynamicssulfuric acid decompositiontubular plug-flow reactorentropy generation rateSO2 yieldmulti-objective optimizationoptimal controlthermodynamic cyclesthermodynamic lengthhydrogen atomnano-size enginesa-thermal cycleheat enginescoolingvery long timescalesslow timeideal gas lawnew and modified variablesSilicon-Germanium alloysminimum of thermal conductivityefficiency of thermoelectric systemsminimal energy dissipationradiative energy transferradiative entropy transfertwo-stream grey atmosphereenergy flux densityentropy flux densitygeneralized windsconservatively perturbed equilibriumextreme valuemomentary equilibriuminformation geometry of thermodynamicsthermodynamic curvaturecritical phenomenabinary fluidsvan der Waals equationquantum heat enginecarnot cycleotto cyclemultiobjective optimizationPareto frontstabilitymaximum power regimeentropy behaviorbiophysicsbiochemistrydynamical systemsdiversitycomplexitypath informationcalorimetryentropy flowbiological communitiesreacting systemsEconomics, finance, business & managementBerry R. Stephenedt440306Salamon PeteredtAndresen BjarneedtBerry R. StephenothSalamon PeterothAndresen BjarneothBOOK9910619468303321Finite-Time Thermodynamics3038946UNINA