Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
83 (1985), S. 334-338
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The proportionality between the square of the distance traversed as measured in thermodynamic length and the minimum associated dissipation of a process is established in a new context independent of dynamical laws. A quasistatic thermodynamic process consisting of K steps, each equilibrating with an appropriate reservoir, is optimized with respect to the position of the steps and the allocation of the total time τ for the process among the steps. It is found that the steps should be of equal thermodynamic length. For large K the bounds based on thermodynamic length are recovered.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.449774
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