Sentences with phrase «turbulent air»

Because the rotors tend to be shorter, vertical turbines only have access to lower wind speeds and are more vulnerable to turbulent air flows from buildings and trees.

This sharp styling line defines the tunnel base and keeps turbulent air from below out of the tunnel itself.

The sound produced in engines is partly down to turbulent air near the inner walls of the engine.

The rear diffuser improves airflow and reduces turbulent air exiting from under the car, adding function to its street - ready attitude.

Unique end plates have been designed to capture less turbulent air.

Other planes have very light wings that can change shape to move through turbulent air.

Another highly turbulent air pathway is the cooling system.

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The Japanese researchers who first described the hum in 1998 suggested it might be caused by turbulent air in the atmosphere pounding on land.

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With current telescopes, such subtle distortions are drowned out by far more intense distortions on the ground: the flexing of the telescope's mirror as the temperature changes, for instance, or blurring caused by turbulent air above the observatory.

For example, Garret says that tall, deep storms with more turbulent air inside seem to produce snowflakes that are heavily rimed.

The aerodynamic work is similarly extensive, with an 80 - percent larger front splitter complete with F1 - style end plates, new side skirts that settle turbulent air created by the front wheels, larger side air intakes to feed the intercoolers (tilted outward to enhance efficiency) and, of course, the larger airbrake.

This is the world's first draught - stop system that enables different comfort levels to be selected for two occupants, as the driver and passenger can individually pivot the units to the centre of the vehicle in a flash, thus taming turbulent air flow from the rear.

Rear vents not only provide a clever visual replacement for tailpipes, they also channel turbulent air from the rear wheel arches into the vehicle's wake.

Professor Giles Harrison, who led an international research team including scientists from the University of Reading's Meteorology department, the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, said: «The sky is often full of clues to weather changes, and asperitas provides distinctive visualisation of complex and turbulent air motions in the lower atmosphere.»

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Dimples bring turbulent air flow closer to the ball, creating whirlpools of air that lower drag and extend drives.

Tacked on the trunk of the ZL1 is a low - sitting spoiler that hangs slightly over the wide rear fenders in order to generate downforce with minimal drag, and the underbody has full shielding to manage turbulent air.

It doesn't look it, but the three - box silhouette was surprisingly aerodynamic in its day — thank the sharply cut - off «kamm» tail, which minimized turbulent air behind the car.

There's a pair of cooling ducts in the front bonnet, the front wings retain the slats cut into their top surface to allow turbulent air out of the wheelarches, and there are air intakes positioned ahead of the rear wheels.

The wings not only measure an extra 19 mm at the front and an additional 55 mm at the rear, but they also include rear cut - outs to draw turbulent air out from the arch, thus reducing pressure and lift.

It's not just a warm - weather car, either, with heated seats and the airscarf warm - air vent integrated into the headrests of the seats, optional ventilated seats (maybe) and the option (yes, for sure) of a small, glass wind - stopper that slots between the rollover bars to stop turbulent air hitting people in the backs of their heads.

Turbulent air generates considerably more drag than smooth - flowing (laminar) air.

A turbulence inversion often forms when quiescent air overlies turbulent air.

To my eyes, it seemed that there was still quite a lot of turbulent air flowing around the body of the Civic, but the quality of my aerodynamic analysis could be one of the reasons why I shoot cars for a living rather than design them.

Certainly the strength of thunderstorms and thermal columns increases with a higher lapse rate — a nice post-frontal day with a very cold air mass moving in over warm moist air on the ground makes for great hang glider flying and, yes, much more turbulent air.

The back features an aggressive diffuser to settle turbulent air from the undercarriage.

There's also Airguide, a new draught - stop system consisting of pivoting transparent plastic layers attached to the reverse of the roll - over bars — the driver or passenger can swing them to the centre of the vehicle in a flash to tame turbulent air flow.

In place of exhaust pipes, there are rear vents that help to channel turbulent air from the rear wheel arches into the vehicle's wake, as well as a rear diffuser.

Depending on whether the surface is warmer or cooler than the air next to it, heat is transferred to or from the atmosphere by turbulent air motion (more loosely, by convection).

They are calculated as daily turbulent air - sea fluxes over global oceans with a spatial resolution of 0.25 ° in longitude and latitude.

VORTEX — Turbulence: RUSHing leaves a disruptive wake of turbulent air behind — Touchdown: Timed boost landings are more effective — Spiral: Earn RUSH directly from performing barrel rolls

Felder shoots off the end of the ramp, leaning into the turbulent air above the white valley.

In a shock to absolutely nobody, Kimi Raikkonen has said he found the Brazilian Grand Prix «a bit boring» after feeling the full effect of the turbulent air in the penultimate race of the season.

At the planet's equator is a layer of turbulent air flow, which smoothes out at higher latitudes, notes Fred Taylor, a University of Oxford physicist and interdisciplinary scientist for the Venus Express mission.

That both telescopes could conceivably glimpse Proxima b at all is due to the planet's proximity as well as adaptive optics — computer - controlled deformable mirrors that change their shape 1,000 or 2,000 times a second to correct in real time for the turbulent air.

They discovered leading - edge serrations can passively control the transition between laminar, or streamline air flow, and turbulent air flow over the upper wing surface, at angles of attack (AoA) between zero and 20 degrees.

«In contrast the Brazuca, with its deeper grooves, hits that turbulent air flow at a lower speed with the result that the ball is much more predictable.

«By sensing gusts and disturbances in air flow through their feathers, birds are able to fly gracefully rather than bouncing around in turbulent air,» he said.

Dominique Martinez, a researcher at the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, commenting on the study in Nature, notes that when encountering odor plumes in turbulent air, the rate of information gain may be similar to chemotaxis» concentration gradient.

The group also measures the turbulent air flow to understand how it interacts with the drifting snow.

I was worried that a lack of Chris Sanders, director and writer from the first movie, might actually defang what momentum a sequel would have, but Dean DeBlois gets to fly this one solo and doesn't hit any turbulent air.

With the windows raised and the factory - installed wind - blocker positioned behind the seats, the turbulent air pouring past the windshield doesn't pummel passengers too badly at highway speeds.

And in order to increase airflow into the side mounted radiators the turbulent air that exits from the wheel arches is directed into larger air - intakes ahead of the rear wheels, within the intakes the radiators, which are the same size as those in a 650S, have been tuned through four - degrees to increase efficiency.

In the turbulent air behind the arrival of the 641bhp Lamborghini Urus, we can now tell you that there's a plug - in hybrid on the way, too.