Thermodynamic irreversibility and performance characteristics of a thermoelectric power generator are investigated. The influence of the external load parameter, the thermal conductivity ratio, the figure of Merit, and the conductance ratio on the efficiency, the output power, and the entropy...

The equilibrium heating ceases in the surface vicinity of the solid as the laser heating pulse length reduces to sub-nanoseconds. In this case, one-equation model overestimates the temperature rise in the surface vicinity. In order to account for the non-equilibrium heating, the present study is...