Sentences with phrase «higher pressure waves»

A valve in the mixing tube, downstream of the underfloor catalytic converters, closes immediately when six of the twelve cylinders are shut off to prevent higher pressure waves occurring in the exhaust system.

Normally we would see the Bermuda High pressure wave interacting with this SW US pressure wave, by oscillating East and West.

Not exact matches

In the late 1970s he was the first to predict a massive wave of inflationary pressures that would lead to record - high interest rates between 1980 and 1982.

Trump disbanded two of his economic councils after a wave of defections from high - profile CEOs, announcing on Twitter: «Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both.

Water heats more slowly than land, creating pressure differences that drive high - speed winds; fast - burning fires spawn flame - breathing vortices; the pressure waves of a plane on takeoff transform water into ice.

ZAPPING the inside of an artery with radio waves can reduce high blood pressure even in people for whom drugs don't work.

Now 6 years into her postdoctoral research, Alireza is beginning to make waves in the physics community with her experiments on the effects of high pressure at a quantum level.

The pattern of high and low pressure in the atmosphere is what creates that long wave pattern, and the pressure pattern in influenced by the NAO.

The P2 generates energy when its large floating tubes, connected by hinged joints, bob in the waves, moving hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid to drive turbine.

The record - breaking heat wave has been caused by A settled high - pressure system, says the National Weather Service

The scorching heat wave results from a ridge of high pressure settled in over the Southwest, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

Projectiles with copper impactors struck the cerium, creating shock waves inside that transformed it from the ambient γ phase into a higher pressure, higher temperature α state.

Those waves, in turn, led to the formation at midlatitudes of high - pressure systems, or «ridges.»

Such pressures have been reached before, but only with shock waves that also create high temperatures — hundreds of thousands of degrees or more — that are not realistic for planetary interiors.

I built a work that exploits the phenomenon of sonoluminescence, in which extremely high pressure sound waves in liquids create tiny sources of electromagnetic energy.

As the tubes» sections rise up and down on the passing waves they tug on the hinges, which are resisted by hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid through hydraulic motors and turn electrical generators to produce electricity.

The trick depends on creating a standing wave with regions of low and high pressure.

That disturbance produces waves of high and low pressure traveling at about 760 miles per hour, which we experience as sound.

The researchers used high - powered optical laser to create pairs of shock waves in the plastic with the correct combination of temperature and pressure.

When the high pressure front at the crest of the sound wave slams into these bubbles, they implode, and shock waves focus the energy of the implosion to a central region of atomic dimensions.

High pressure tends to cause sinking air and suppress precipitation, which can allow a heat wave to develop and intensify over land areas.

Eventually, a high - pressure ridge moved from the North Atlantic into the United States, shutting down rainfall and setting the stage for a heat wave to emerge.

A blocking high pressure system in the North Atlantic creating consistent strong northeasterly flow would provide wave action that may have contributed to the chevron ridge formation in the Bahamas and Bermuda.

Using atmospheric data from the last 35 years, study author Daniel Horton, a Stanford University postdoc, and his colleagues found that persistent areas of high pressure in certain places were linked with extreme heat waves in Europe, western Asia and eastern North America.

There is this nice animation of a 2 - stroke engine with an expansion chamber Source It works like this: While moving downwards after ignition, the piston exposes the exhaust opening, and the burned gas streams into the exhaust pipe like a (high pressure) shock wave.

The show made waves with a largely teenage audience for examining some of the harsher aspects of high school life like bullying, assault, sexual harassment, drugs, peer pressure and growing up with mental illness.

In the late 1970s he was the first to predict a massive wave of inflationary pressures that would lead to record - high interest rates between 1980 and 1982.

[3] As powerful waves hit the coast, water rushes into these crevices and bursts out in a high pressured release.

Located by the Kata / Karon administrative offices at Kata Beach, Surf House is centered on a high - pressure wave - generating machine that throws a four - inch - deep sheet of water up a sloping «pool».

And then when I watch the current pressure animation for the same period, it appears that the red areas of high temps build up from waves of high pressure followed by low pressure passing through.

All heat waves are caused by stationary high pressure systems.

Huge waves have battered the coastline where storm surges created by a series of deep low pressure systems and strong winds blowing over thousands of kilometres combined with high tides.

The water pressure would exceed any pressure human have ever made, oh I guess not: «typical pressures reached by large - volume presses are up to 30 - 40 GPa, pressures that can be generated inside diamond anvil cells are ~ 320 GPa, pressure in the center of the Earth is 364 GPa, and highest pressures ever achieved in shock waves are over 100,000 GPa.»

In 1939, Carl - Gustaf Arvid Rossby, a Swedish - born America meteorologist, discovered waves in the northern jet stream that were associated with the high and low pressure systems at ground level that form daily weather patterns.

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Blocking also leads to extremes developing in air masses, such as cloudless heat waves in the summer and cold clear - skied high pressure centers in winter.

«The times and places with hot summers tend to be where the weather is dominated... by high pressure, so there is high correspondence between the [extremely hot outliers or extreme] heat waves and drought conditions.»

Persistence of waves can not only occur with high pressure, but also e.g. with low pressure systems (potentially leading to flooding) or with persistent zonal flow (supporting the occurrence of extreme cyclones).

The heat wave was due primarily to a natural phenomenon called an atmospheric «blocking pattern», in which a strong high pressure system developed and remained stationary over western Russian, keeping summer storms and cool air from sweeping through the region and leading to the extreme hot and dry conditions.

The culprit appears to be several waves of warm high - pressure ridges that have swept over Greenland, each stronger than the last, with the most recent one squatting over the island for about a week.

Under the high - pressure spot, this can bring long, grueling heat waves that don't go away for days or weeks.