INFLUENCE OF THE LINEAR DISTRIBUTION OF THE CHARGE-CARRIER DENSITY 
ALONG THE ARM OF A THERMOCOUPLE ON THE REGIME OF ITS OPERATION

O. I. Markov

UDC 621.362.1

The problem on the temperature field in an inhomogeneous 
one-dimensional arm of a thermocouple has been solved by numerical 
methods with regard for both the distributed Peltier effect and the 
Thomson effect. It was assumed that the charge carriers are nondegenerate. 
The temperature field of the thermocouple was optimized for the regimes 
of maximum temperature drop and maximum refrigerating capacity. An 
optimum range of change in the charge-carrier density gradient has 
been determined.

Orel State University, 95 Komsomol'skaya Str., Orel. 302015, 
Russia; email: Markov@email.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 186-189, January-February, 2005. 
Original article submitted October 3, 2003.