Sentences with phrase «pressure waves within»

Pressure waves within an extremely large ongoing slide can substantially boost the distance it runs

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Now, a team that resurrected the 2 - decade - old model has found that pressure waves set up within exceptionally large flows help boost their overall runout.

The volume of the plenum and the length of inlet passages are both tuned to maximize the resonance effect, wherein pressure waves are amplified within each half of the intake manifold at certain rpm ranges.

Brian McNoldy, a meteorologist at Colorado State University who maintains a useful Web site on tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean, has distributed an alert about a particularly noteworthy wave of low pressure moving west from Africa that appears likely to become a hurricane within a week.

Extratropical cyclones have three stages of expansion: the developing stage, in which an undulating wave develops along the front; the mature stage, in which sinking cold air sweeps equatorward west of the surface low - pressure centre and ascending warm air moves poleward east of the cyclone; and the occluded stage, in which the warm air is entrained within and moved above the polar air and becomes separated from the source region of the tropical air.