Tsirlin, Anatoly M.; Kazakov, Vladimir A. - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 2 (2004) 1, pp. 29-42
This paper describes general methodology that allows one to extend Carnot efficiency of classical thermodynamic for zero rate processes onto thermodynamic systems with finite rate. We define the class of minimal dissipation processes and show that it represents generalization of reversible...
