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The performance of an irreversible engine consisting of a nonlinear diodes system is presented. The system consists of two diodes switched in the opposite directions and located in two reservoirs at different temperatures, and the two diodes are connected in parallel with a capacitor. Based on the theory of thermal fluctuations, the expressions of the heat fluxes absorbed from the hot and cold reservoirs are derived. When the heat leak between the two reservoirs is taken into account, the power output and the efficiency of the engine can be obtained. The performance characteristic curves are plotted and the characteristic relations between the optimum performance parameters and the ratio of the temperatures are obtained by numerical simulation. The influence of the main parameters, including the nonlinearity of the diodes, the loss of heat leak and the ratio of temperatures of two reservoirs, on the performance characteristics of the engine is analyzed in detail. Finally, the performance characteristics of the ideal diodes engine are discussed.
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Keywords:
- diode /
- nonlinear fluctuations /
- irreversible thermodynamics /
- performance characteristics
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[1] Julicher F, Ajdari A, Prost J 1997 Rev. Mod. Phys.69 1269
[2] Parrondo J M R 1998 Phys. Rev. E 57 7297
[3] Kamegawa H, Hondou T, Takagi F 1998 Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 5251
[4] Derényi I, Astumian R D 1999 Phys.Rev.Lett. 59 R6219
[5] Parrondo J M R, de Cisneros B J 2002 Appl. Phys. A: Mater.Sci.Process.75 179
[6] Rozenbaum V M, Korochkova T Y, Liang K K 2007 Phys.Rev.E 75 061115-1
[7] Asfaw M, Bekele M 2007 Physica A 384 346
[8] Segal D 2008 Phys. Rev.Lett.101 206601
[9] Bai Z W, Meng G Q 2008 Acta Phys. Sin.57 2895 (in Chinese) [白占武、蒙高庆2008 物理学报 57 2895]
[10] Liu J L, He J Z 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 030504
[11] Feynman R P, Leighton R B, Sands M 1966 The Feynman Lectures on Physics I (Reading MA: Addison-Wesley) pp46.1—46.9
[12] Velasco S, Roco J M M, Medina A, Calvo Hernández A 2001 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.34 1000
[13] Parrondo J M R, Espaol P 1996 Am. J. Phys. 64 1125
[14] Sekimoto K 1997 J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 66 1234
[15] Sokolov I M 1998 Europhys. Lett. 44 278
[16] Sokolov I M 1999 Phys. Rev. E 60 4946
[17] Sanchez Salas N, Calvo Hernández1 A 2002 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 35 1442
[18] Parmeggiani A, Julicher F, Ajdari A, Prost J 1990 Phys. Rev. E 60 2127
[19] Wang X M, He J Z, Wang J H 2008 Acta Electronica Sin. 36 2178 (in Chinese) [王小敏、何济洲、王建辉 2008 电子学报 36 2178]
[20] He J Z, Wang X M, Liang H N 2009 Phys. Scr. 80 035701
[21] Gao T F, Zhang Y, Chen J C 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 3279
[22] Chen J 1994 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 27 1144
[23] Chen L, Sun F, Wu C 1999 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 32 99
[24] Chen L, Wu C, Sun F 1999 J. Non-Equilib. Thermodyn. 24 327
[25] Chen L, Sun F 2004 Advances in Finite Time Thermodynamics: Analysis and Optimization (New York: Nova Science Publishers) p28
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