F. Angulo-brown et La. Arias-hernandez, Reply to "Comment on 'A general property of endoreversible thermal engines' " [J. Appl. Phys. 89, 1518 (2001)], J APPL PHYS, 89(2), 2001, pp. 1520-1521
In this reply to a comment by Yan on our previous article [J. Appl. Phys. 8
1, 2973 (1997)], we show that the compromise function C(epsilon) between hi
gh power output and low entropy production for CAN engines, proposed in tha
t article to find the best ecological function, is not tautological. Moreov
er, this procedure is useful to construct the best ecological function for
any heat transfer law used in endoreversible thermal engine models. (C) 200
1 American Institute of Physics.