Lucia, Umberto - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 17, pp. 3513-3517
In 1824, Carnot proposed a cycle operating on reversibility principles. He proved that there exists an upper limit of the efficiency of this cycle and this limit is also the upper limit for any real process. The irreversibility related to the finite-time and the finite-size constraints are...