Work and power fluctuations in a critical heat engine

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

RIV/00216208:11320/17:10369644 - isvavai.cz

Výsledek na webu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.030102

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

10.1103/PhysRevE.96.030102

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Work and power fluctuations in a critical heat engine

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

We investigate fluctuations of output work for a class of Stirling heat engines with working fluid composed of interacting units and compare these fluctuations to an average work output. In particular, we focus on engine performance close to a critical point where Carnot's efficiency may be attained at a finite power as reported by M. Campisi and R. Fazio [Nat. Commun. 7, 11895 (2016)]. We show that the variance of work output per cycle scales with the same critical exponent as the heat capacity of the working fluid. As a consequence, the relative work fluctuation diverges unless the output work obeys a rather strict scaling condition, which would be very hard to fulfill in practice. Even under this condition, the fluctuations of work and power do not vanish in the infinite system size limit. Large fluctuations of output work thus constitute inseparable and dominant element in performance of the macroscopic heat engines close to a critical point.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Work and power fluctuations in a critical heat engine

Popis výsledku anglicky

We investigate fluctuations of output work for a class of Stirling heat engines with working fluid composed of interacting units and compare these fluctuations to an average work output. In particular, we focus on engine performance close to a critical point where Carnot's efficiency may be attained at a finite power as reported by M. Campisi and R. Fazio [Nat. Commun. 7, 11895 (2016)]. We show that the variance of work output per cycle scales with the same critical exponent as the heat capacity of the working fluid. As a consequence, the relative work fluctuation diverges unless the output work obeys a rather strict scaling condition, which would be very hard to fulfill in practice. Even under this condition, the fluctuations of work and power do not vanish in the infinite system size limit. Large fluctuations of output work thus constitute inseparable and dominant element in performance of the macroscopic heat engines close to a critical point.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10300 - Physical sciences

Projekt

GA17-06716S: Stochastická termodynamika molekulárních systémů: od klasické ke kvantové

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Physical Review E

ISSN

2470-0045

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

96

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

5

Strana od-do

—

Kód UT WoS článku

000409437700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85029886229