Authors
Citation
Wg. Anderson, RELATIVISTIC HEAT ENGINES AND EFFICIENCY, Physics letters. A, 223(1-2), 1996, pp. 23-27
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
223
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
23 - 27
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1996)223:1-2<23:RHEAE>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We discuss some properties of heat engines with source and sink in rel
ative motion. In particular, we introduce an efficiency tensor for suc
h engines and explore its properties. This is the natural covariant ge
neralisation of the scalar efficiency of conventional thermodynamics.