2 papers
math.OC2020
Limits to Energy Conversion
Arjan van der Schaft, Dimitri Jeltsema
A consequence of the Second Law of thermodynamics is that no thermodynamic system with a single heat source at constant temperature can convert heat into mechanical work in a recur…
math.OC2020
Cyclo-dissipativity revisited
Arjan van der Schaft
Starting from a symmetrization and extension of the basic definitions and results of dissipativity theory we obtain new results on cyclo-dissipativity; in particular their external…