Tuesday, 12 May 2015

thermodynamics - Why do we consider heat transfer from/to reservoirs a reversible process?


In order to find the production of entropy on a process between a system and a reservoir, it's useful to consider that reservoir passes through a reversible process. Why is that?


The definition I have for reversible process is that it is a process that can be reversed without leaving marks on the surroundings.


So, if I transfer heat from my system to the reservoir, its temperature wouldn't change. Also, if the reverse happened it wouldn't change the temperature either.. so it could be approximated to a reversible process.




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