05253nam 2201477z- 450 9910619468303321202210253-0365-4950-1(CKB)5670000000391591(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93182(oapen)doab93182(EXLCZ)99567000000039159120202210d2022 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFinite-Time ThermodynamicsMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20221 online 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 & managementbicssca-thermal cycleaveragedbinary fluidsbiochemistrybiological communitiesbiophysicscalorimetrycarnot cyclecomplexityconservatively perturbed equilibriumcontact temperaturecoolingcritical phenomenacyclic modediversitydynamical systemseconomicsefficiencyefficiency of thermoelectric systemselimination methodendoreversible engineendoreversible thermodynamicsenergy flux densityentropy behaviorentropy flowentropy flux densityentropy generation rateentropy productionextreme valuefinite time thermodynamicsfinite-time thermodynamicsgeneralized radiative heat transfer lawgeneralized windsheat enginesheat transferhydrogen atomideal gas lawinformation geometry of thermodynamicsirreversibilityLandauer's principlemacroentropymaximum powermaximum power regimemaximum work outputmicroentropyminimal energy dissipationminimum of thermal conductivitymodelingmomentary equilibriummulti-objective optimizationmultiobjective optimizationn/anano-size enginesnew and modified variablesnonequilibrium thermodynamicsoptimal controloptimal motion pathoptimal processesoptimizationotto cycleOtto cyclePareto frontpath informationpiston motion optimizationpowerquantum enginequantum frictionquantum heat enginequantum refrigeratorquantum thermodynamicsradiative energy transferradiative entropy transferreacting systemsreconstructionreversible computingshortcut to adiabaticitySilicon-Germanium alloyssimulationslow timeSO2 yieldstabilitystirling enginesulfuric acid decompositionthermodynamic curvaturethermodynamic cyclesthermodynamic lengththermodynamicstubular plug-flow reactortwo-stream grey atmospherevan der Waals equationvery long timescalesEconomics, finance, business & managementBerry R. Stephenedt440306Salamon PeteredtAndresen BjarneedtBerry R. StephenothSalamon PeterothAndresen BjarneothBOOK9910619468303321Finite-Time Thermodynamics3038946UNINA