The paradoxon of thermoelectricity

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Authors Giovanni Cimatti

Publication date 1 February 1996

Published in Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=RSMUP_1995__93__109_0, https://eudml.org/doc/108350

zbMATH Keywords

electric heating of a homogeneous conductorJoule and Thomson effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Review text

Summary: The electric heating of a homogeneous conductor under steady conditions is studied taking into account the Joule and Thomson effects. We prove that the maximum of the temperature under suitable boundary conditions, does not depend on the shape of the conductor.

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