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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 894056, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/894056
Research Article

An Endoreversible Thermodynamic Model Applied to the Convective Zone of the Sun

J. Ortuño-Araujo,1 M. A. Barranco-Jiménez,1 Janos Zsargo,2 and F. Angulo-Brown2

1Departamento de Formación Básica, Escuela Superior de Cómputo del IPN, Avenue Miguel Bernard s/n., Esquire Juan de Dios Bátiz, U.P. Zacatenco, 07738 México, DF, Mexico
2Departamento de Física, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas del IPN, Edif. 9, U.P. Zacatenco, 07738 México, DF, Mexico

Received 22 December 2011; Accepted 22 January 2012

Academic Editors: M. Ding and A. Pamyatnykh

Copyright © 2012 J. Ortuño-Araujo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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