The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Finite-Time Thermodynamics And Heat Engine Optimization. References [1] A novel exergy analysis method for cerium-based solar ...

Thus, the efficiency of a real heat engine is always less than that of a Carnot heat engine operating between the same reservoirs. This is the second law of thermodynamics.

Through his studies of heat engines, French engineer Sadi Carnot introduced the second law of thermodynamics in 1824. It would take another two decades for physicists to recognize his work’s ...