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Thermodynamics of Energy Conversion and Transport /

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It is becoming more and more important to manage energy resources effectively: to maximize their benefits while minimizing the negative environmental impacts. Scientist and engineers are thus faced with the problem of optimizing complex systems subject to constraints from, ecology, economics, and th...

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Main Author: Sieniutycz, Stanislaw
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Vos, Alexis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2000.
Subjects:
Physics.
Thermodynamics.
Engineering.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Conversion of radiative energy
  • Chapter 2. Thermodynamics of solar energy
  • Chapter 3. Thermodynamics of photovoltaics
  • Chapter 4. Solar buildings
  • Chapter 5. Solar buildings
  • Chapter 6. Discrete Hamiltonian analysis of endoreversible thermal cascades
  • Chapter 7. Optimal piston paths for Diesel engines
  • Chapter 8. Qualitative properties of conductive heat transfer
  • Chapter 9. Energy transfer in particle-surface collisions
  • Chapter 10. Geometrical methods in thermodynamics
  • Chapter 11. From statistical distances to minimally dissipative processes
  • Chapter 12. Distillation by thermodynamic geometry.