Energetic and Exergetic Analysis of a Heat Exchanger Integrated in a Solid Biomass-Fuelled Micro-CHP System with an Ericsson Engine by Marie Creyx, Eric Delacourt, Céline Morin, Sylvain Lalot, Bernard Desmet

“…A new exergetic parameter called the exergetic effectiveness is introduced, which allows a comparison between the real and the ideal heat exchanger considering the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A global analysis of exergetic fluxes in the whole micro-CHP system is presented, showing the repartition of the exergy destruction among the components.…”
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Enhancing radiative energy transfer through thermal extraction by Tan Yixuan, Liu Baoan, Shen Sheng, Yu Zongfu

“…Recently, a new concept of thermal extraction was proposed [8] to enhance far-field thermal emission, which, conceptually, operates on a principle similar to oil immersion lenses and light extraction in light-emitting diodes using solid immersion lens to increase light output [62].Thermal extraction allows a blackbody to radiate more energy to the far field than the apparent limit of the Stefan-Boltzmann law without breaking the second law of thermodynamics.…”
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On the Clausius-Duhem Inequality and Maximum Entropy Production in a Simple Radiating System by Joachim Pelkowski

“…Steady entropy production rates may be calculated for different opacities of one of the layers, explicitly so for the radiative interactions, and indirectly for all the material irreversibilities involved in maintaining thermal uniformity in each layer. The second law of thermodynamics is laid down in two versions, one of which is the well-known Clausius-Duhem inequality, the other being a modern version known as the entropy inequality. …”
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Leakage Evaluation by Virtual Entropy Generation (VEG) Method by Zhichao Zhang, Corina Drapaca, Zhifeng Zhang, Shuaifang Zhang, Shimei Sun, Hui Liu

“…In virtual entropy generation method, the “measured entropy generation” is forced to follow the “experimental second law of thermodynamics”. Taking the leakage as the source virtual entropy generation, a new pipe leakage evaluation criterion was analytically derived, which indicates that the mass leakage rate should be smaller than the pressure drop rate inside a pipe. …”
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Extremal black holes, Stueckelberg scalars and phase transitions by Alessio Marrani, Olivera Miskovic, Paula Quezada Leon

“…The results obtained here are analytical and based on the entropy function formalism and the second law of thermodynamics.…”
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Entropy analysis in a cilia transport of nanofluid under the influence of magnetic field by Muhammad N. Abrar, Rizwan Ul Haq, Muhammad Awais, Irfan Rashid

“…The main goal (i.e., the minimizing of entropy generation) of the second law of thermodynamics can be achieved by decreasing the magnitude of Br, Ha and Λ parameters.…”
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Energy, Entropy, Constraints, and Creativity in Economic Growth and Crises by Reiner Kümmel, Dietmar Lindenberger

“…The neoclassical mainstream theory of economic growth does not care about the First and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It usually considers only capital and labor as the factors that produce the wealth of modern industrial economies. …”
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A universal model describing the structure and functions of living systems by Antonis Mistriotis

“…This conclusion, which is based on the requirement to overcome the constraints of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, indicates a close correspondence between living systems and information processing machines, namely computers. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Thermal Radiation and Viscous Effects on Entropy Generation in Forced Convection Blood Flow over an Axisymmetric Stretching Sheet by Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi, Payam Hooshmand, Ashkan Hesabi, Moon K. Kwak, Isma’il Pirzadeh, Ahmad Jamali Keikha, Mohammadreza Negahdari

“…A parameter study on entropy generation in medium is presented based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics by considering various parameters such as the thermal radiation parameter, the Brinkman number, Prandtl number, Eckert number.…”
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Stochastic thermodynamics of rapidly driven systems by Gregory Bulnes Cuetara, Andreas Engel, Massimiliano Esposito

“…The first and second law of thermodynamics are also identified at the trajectory level. …”
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Quantum Thermodynamics in Strong Coupling: Heat Transport and Refrigeration by Gil Katz, Ronnie Kosloff

“…In all cases, the average heat current always flows from the hot towards the cold bath in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics. The asymmetry of the double well generates a rectifying effect, meaning that when the left and right baths are exchanged the heat current follows the hot-to-cold direction. …”
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Ricci cosmology in light of astronomical data by Roberto Caroli, Mariusz P. Da̧browski, Vincenzo Salzano

“…On the physical ground of the second law of thermodynamics for fluids with non-equilibrium pressure, we find some theoretical bounds (priors) on the parameters of the models. …”
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Effective field theory in light of relative entropy by Qing-Hong Cao, Naoto Kan, Daiki Ueda

“…The consequence of this study on the weak gravity conjecture and the second law of thermodynamics is also discussed.…”
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Catalytic transformations with finite-size environments: applications to cooling and thermometry by Ivan Henao, Raam Uzdin

“…These constraints have consequences for important tasks such as cooling, not directly captured by the second law of thermodynamics. Here, we study catalytic transformations that cannot be achieved when a system exclusively interacts with a finite environment. …”
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Quantum consensus dynamics by entangling Maxwell demon by Sungguen Ryu, Rosa López, Raúl Toral

“…Our finding of the upper bounds corresponds to a reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics under a class of Maxwell demon which generates many-body entanglement in a working substance. …”
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A Robust Assessment Model of the Solar Electrical-Thermal Energy Comprehensive Accommodation Capability in a District Integrated Energy System by Wei Wei, Haoyue Jia, Yunfei Mu, Jianzhong Wu, Hongjie Jia

“…The accommodation capability index is constructed based on the second law of thermodynamics. A robust optimization model was adopted to deal with the uncertainty of solar irradiance. …”
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The Connection Between Entropy and the Absorption Spectra of Schwarzschild Black Holes for Light and Massless Scalar Fields by Sergio Mendoza, Xavier Hernandez, C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo, Pablo L. Rendón, Roberto Velasco-Segura

“…We present heuristic arguments suggesting that if EM waves with wavelengths somewhat larger than the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole were fully absorbed by it, the second law of thermodynamics would be violated, under the Bekenstein interpretation of the area of a black hole as a measure of its entropy. …”
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Entropy-current for dynamical black holes in Chern-Simons theories of gravity by Ishan Deo, Prateksh Dhivakar, Nilay Kundu

“…Abstract We construct an entropy current and establish a local version of the classical second law of thermodynamics for dynamical black holes in Chern-Simons (CS) theories of gravity. …”
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The maximum efficiency of nano heat engines depends on more than temperature by Mischa P. Woods, Nelly Huei Ying Ng, Stephanie Wehner

“…Furthermore, we show that the maximum efficiency is determined by either the standard second law of thermodynamics, analogously to the macroscopic case, or by the non increase of the max relative entropy, which is a quantity previously associated with the single shot regime in many quantum protocols. …”
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Non-Equilibrium Entropy and Irreversibility in Generalized Stochastic Loewner Evolution from an Information-Theoretic Perspective by Yusuke Shibasaki, Minoru Saito

“…We demonstrate that this operation leads to alternative expressions of the Jarzynski equality and the second law of thermodynamics, which are consistent with the previously suggested theory of information thermodynamics. …”
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