Nuwayhid, Rida Y.; Jaber, Mohamad Y.; Rosen, Marc A.; Sassine, Georges P.
(InterScience Online, 2005-12-05)
The flow of a commodity is modelled as a quasi-thermodynamic irreversible process. The flow is treated not as a mass quantity, but more like a transient energy quantity. A commodity is thus considered an artefact that ...