Kaur, J.; Johal, R.S. An Effective Flux Framework for Linear Irreversible Heat Engines: Case Study of a Thermoelectric Generator. Entropy2024, 26, 219.
Kaur, J.; Johal, R.S. An Effective Flux Framework for Linear Irreversible Heat Engines: Case Study of a Thermoelectric Generator. Entropy 2024, 26, 219.
Kaur, J.; Johal, R.S. An Effective Flux Framework for Linear Irreversible Heat Engines: Case Study of a Thermoelectric Generator. Entropy2024, 26, 219.
Kaur, J.; Johal, R.S. An Effective Flux Framework for Linear Irreversible Heat Engines: Case Study of a Thermoelectric Generator. Entropy 2024, 26, 219.
Abstract
We consider an autonomous heat engine in simultaneous contact with a hot and a cold reservoir, and described within a linear-irreversible framework. In the tight-coupling approximation, the rate of entropy generation is effectively written in terms of a single thermal flux which is a homogeneous function of the hot and cold fluxes. The specific algebraic forms of the effective flux are deduced in scenarios containing internal and external irreversibilities for the typical example of a thermoelectric generator.
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