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artículos
Título:
On the maximum efficiency of realistic heat engines
Autor/es:
MIRANDA, E. N.
Revista:
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education
Editorial:
Manchester University Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Manchester; Año: 2007 vol. 35 p. 76 - 78
ISSN:
0306-4190
Resumen:
In 1975, Courzon and Ahlborn studied a Carnot engine with thermal losses and got an expression for its efficiency that described better the performance of actual heat machines than the traditional result due to Carnot. In their original derivation, time appears explicitly  and this is disappointing in the framework of classical thermodynamics. In this note a derivation is given without any explicit reference to time.