TY - JOUR
TI - OPTIMAL TEMPERATURES AND MAXIMUM POWER OUTPUT OF A COMPLEX SYSTEM WITH LINEAR PHENOMENOLOGICAL HEAT TRANSFER LAW
AU - Chen Lingen
AU - Li Jun
AU - Sun Fengrui
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2009
VL - 13
IS - 4
SP - 33
EP - 40
PT - Article
AB - A complex system including several heat reservoirs, finite thermal capacity subsystems with different temperatures and a transformer (heat engine or refrigerator) with linear phenomenological heat transfer law [q proportional to D<sup>T-1</sup>] is studied by using finite time thermodynamics. The optimal temperatures of the subsystems and the transformer and the maximum power output (or the minimum power needed) of the system are obtained.