This process provides a schematic approximation to the generation of hurricanes, since they begin when air spirals toward the storm center, acquiring entropy at constant temperature.
This process provides a schematic approximation to the generation of hurricanes, since they begin when air spirals toward the storm center, acquiring entropy at constant temperature. Since the second law of thermodynamics demands that the ratio of heat transferred from a hot reservoir to the reservoir temperature be equal to the ratio of heat transferred to the cold reservoir to that reservoir's temperature, the temperature difference over the hot reservoir temperature gives the maximum efficiency of this process. Consisting of isothermal expansion, isentropic expansion, isothermal compression, and isentropic compression, FTP, identify this most efficient thermodynamic cycle, proposed in 1824 by its French namesake.
This process provides a schematic approximation to the generation of hurricanes, since they begin when air spirals toward the storm center, acquiring entropy at constant temperature.
{Carnot} cycle