Exergy Surface Shaping and Thermodynamic Flow Control of Electro-Mechanical-Thermal Systems

Abstract

This invention is directed to exergy surface shaping and thermodynamic flow control (ESSTFC) for electro-mechanical-thermal (EMT) systems (i.e., irreversible work processes with heat and mass flows). Extended irreversible thermodynamics are utilized to produce consistent thermal equations-of-motion that directly include the exergy destruction terms. A simplified EMT system that models the EMT dynamics of a ship equipped with a railgun is used to demonstrate the application of ESSTFC for designing high performance, stable nonlinear controllers for EMT systems.

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