Revisiting Endoreversible Carnot Engine: Extending the Yvon Engine

Curzon and Ahlborn’s 1975 paper, a pioneering work that inspired the birth of the field of finite-time thermodynamics, unveiled the efficiency at maximum power (EMP) of the endoreversible Carnot heat engine, now commonly referred to as the Curzon–Ahlborn (CA) engine. Historically, despite the signif...

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Main Authors: Xiu-Hua Zhao, Yu-Han Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-02-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/2/195