Van der Waals gas as working substance in a Curzon and Ahlborn-Novikov engine

Abstract

Using a van der Waals gas as the working substance the so called Curzon and Ahlborn-Novikov engine is studied. It is shown that some previous results found in the literature of finite time thermodynamics can be written in a more general form, means of this gas and by taking a non linear heat transfer law. © 2005 by MDPI.