Stochastic thermodynamic engines under time-varying temperature profile

DOI10.1016/J.AUTOMATICA.2023.111361arXiv2207.05069OpenAlexW4388064888MaRDI QIDQ6404643FDOQ6404643

Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Amirhossein Taghvaei, Yongxin Chen, Rui Fu, Tryphon T. Georgiou

Publication date: 10 July 2022

Abstract: In the present paper, we study the power output and efficiency of overdamped stochastic thermodynamic engines that are in contact with a heat bath having a temperature that varies periodically with time. This is in contrast to most of the existing literature that considers the Carnot paradigm of alternating contact with heat baths having different fixed temperatures, hot and cold. Specifically, we consider a periodic and bounded but otherwise arbitrary temperature profile and derive explicit bounds on the power and efficiency achievable by a suitable controlling potential that couples the thermodynamic engine to the external world. Standing assumptions in our analysis are bounds on the norm of the gradient of effective potentials -- in the absence of any such constraint, the physically questionable conclusion of arbitrarily large power can be drawn.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111361

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic systems in control theory (general) (93E03) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05)

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