Simulation of the Carnot Engine in the Frame of Statistical Mechanics

摘要

We developed a highly interactive, multi-windows Java applet which made it possible to simulate and visualize within any platform and internet the Carnot engine in a real-time computer experiment. As usually the considerations of phenomenological thermodynamics began with a study of the basic properties of heat engines hence our approach, beside intrinsic physical significance, is also important from the educational, technological and even environmental points of view.