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Carnot Efficiency

Carnot Efficiency is the maximum theoretical efficiency attainable by a heat engine operating between two thermal reservoirs, defined as the ratio of the temperature difference between the reservoirs to the temperature of the hot reservoir, expressed in absolute units.

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Variants

Carnot LimitCarnot's Efficiency

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438

Efficiency of a Carnot engine at maximum power output

F. L. Curzon, B. Ahlborn · American Journal of Physics · 1975 · 2.3K citations

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Thermoacoustic engines

G. W. Swift · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1988 · 1K citations

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Magnetic heat pumping near room temperature

Gerald V. Brown · Journal of Applied Physics · 1976 · 954 citations

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The quantum open system as a model of the heat engine

Robert Alicki · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General · 1979 · 766 citations

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Nanoscale Heat Engine Beyond the Carnot Limit

J. Roßnagel, Obinna Abah, F. Schmidt–Kaler et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2014 · 654 citations · Full text

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Authors

959

  1. LC
    Lingen Chen

    Naval University of Engineering, China

    10 publications · 418 citations

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  2. FS
    Fengrui Sun

    Naval University of Engineering, China

    9 publications · 390 citations

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  3. JH
    Jizhou He

    Nanchang University, China

    9 publications · 465 citations

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  4. GC
    Giulio Casati

    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Italy

    9 publications · 520 citations

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  5. CW
    Chih Wu

    United States Naval Academy, United States

    8 publications · 351 citations

    8

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Institutions

453

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    15 h-index

    26 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. Naval University of Engineering

    Wuhan, China

    10 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. University of Stuttgart

    Stuttgart, Germany

    10 h-index

    19 publications

    3.2K citations

  5. Nanchang University

    Nanchang, China

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano

    Milan, Italy

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    896 citations

  7. University of Insubria

    Varese, Italy

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. United States Naval Academy

    Annapolis, United States

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    395 citations

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  1. Physical Review E

    PRE · 45 publications · 3.3K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 28 publications · 4.8K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Physics

    24 publications · 2.7K citations

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  4. Physical review. E

    PRE · 24 publications · 827 citations

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  5. Europhysics Letters (EPL)

    15 publications · 1.4K citations

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