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Title: Optimizing Thermodynamic Cycles with Two Finite-Sized Heat Reservoirs
(Submitted on 23 Jul 2021 (this version), latest version 6 Dec 2021 (v3))
Abstract: We study the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a heat engine operating between two finite-sized reservoirs with well-defined temperatures. Within the linear response regime, it is discovered that there exists a power-efficiency constraint relation depending on the ratio of heat capacities ($\gamma$) of the reservoirs for the engine; the uniform temperature of the two reservoirs at final time $\tau$ is bounded from below by the entropy production $\sigma_{\mathrm{min}}\propto1/\tau$. We further obtain a universal efficiency at maximum power of the engine for arbitrary $\gamma$. Our findings can be used to develop an optimization scenario for thermodynamic cycles with finite-sized reservoirs in practice.
Submission history
From: Yu-Han Ma [view email][v1] Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:40:42 GMT (390kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 4 Aug 2021 07:47:09 GMT (390kb,D)
[v3] Mon, 6 Dec 2021 03:04:32 GMT (455kb,D)
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