The First Fifty Years of Finite-Time Thermodynamics

The year 1975 marked the beginning of an entirely new direction for thermodynamics with the publication of Curzon and Ahlborn's innocent-looking short paper "<i>Efficiency of a Carnot engine at maximum power output</i>" [...].

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Entropy
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2025-12-30
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https://doi.org/10.3390/e28010049
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Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
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The First Fifty Years of Finite-Time Thermodynamics

Bjarne Andresen, Peter Salamon
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The First Fifty Years of Finite-Time Thermodynamics

Bjarne Andresen, Peter Salamon
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Abstract

The year 1975 marked the beginning of an entirely new direction for thermodynamics with the publication of Curzon and Ahlborn's innocent-looking short paper "<i>Efficiency of a Carnot engine at maximum power output</i>" [...].

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