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The First Fifty Years of Finite-Time Thermodynamics
by
Bjarne Andresen
Bjarne Andresen
and
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon
1
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 155 A, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
2
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-7720, USA
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Entropy 2026, 28(1), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/e28010049 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 25 December 2025
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Accepted: 29 December 2025
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Published: 30 December 2025
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The year 1975 marked the beginning of an entirely new direction for thermodynamics with the publication of Curzon and Ahlborn’s innocent-looking short paper “
Efficiency of a Carnot engine at maximum power output” [...]
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