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most citedCoefficient of performance at maximum figure of merit and its bounds for low-dissipation Carnot-like refrigerators

90 citations · 248 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 4 cited

Bounds and phase diagram of efficiency at maximum power for tight-coupling molecular motors

Z. C. Tu

The efficiency at maximum power (EMP) for tight-coupling molecular motors is investigated within the framework of irreversible thermodynamics. It is found that the EMP depends mere…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 90 cited

Coefficient of performance at maximum figure of merit and its bounds for low-dissipation Carnot-like refrigerators

Yang Wang, Mingxing Li, Z. C. Tu +2

The figure of merit for refrigerators performing finite-time Carnot-like cycles between two reservoirs at temperature and () is optimized. It is found that the co…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 20 cited

Bounds of Efficiency at Maximum Power for Normal-, Sub- and Super-Dissipative Carnot-Like Heat Engines

Yang Wang, Z. C. Tu

The Carnot-like heat engines are classified into three types (normal-, sub- and super-dissipative) according to relations between the minimum irreversible entropy production in the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011★ 45 cited

Bounds of efficiency at maximum power for linear, superlinear and sublinear irreversible Carnot-like heat engines

Yang Wang, Z. C. Tu

The efficiency at maximum power (EMP) of irreversible Carnot-like heat engines is investigated based on the weak endoreversible assumption and the phenomenologically irreversible t…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011★ 81 cited

Efficiency at maximum power output of linear irreversible Carnot-like heat engines

Yang Wang, Z. C. Tu

The efficiency at maximum power output of linear irreversible Carnot-like heat engines is investigated based on the assumption that the rate of irreversible entropy production of w…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 8 cited

Theoretical and numerical investigations on shapes of planar lipid monolayer domains

Hao Wu, Z. C. Tu

Shapes of planar lipid monolayer domains at the air-water interface are theoretically and numerically investigated by minimizing the formation energy of the domains which consist o…