Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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expander

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Transducer that, for a given input amplitude range, produces a larger output range.

feedstock

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Raw material supplied for production of electricity, gases, or chemicals.

finite-element method

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Computational method that relies upon dividing regions into subregions, subject to boundary conditions, and generating a set of linear equations to be solved.

Diesel fuel made from natural gas using a method known as the Fischer-Tropsch process. FT fuels are liquid at ambient conditions, have a high cetane number, and effectively no sulfur content. They ...

flow field

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Velocity and the density of a fluid as functions of position and time. Also known as flow distribution.

oxygen reduction reaction

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Oxidation involves a loss of electrons by one molecule, and reduction involves an absorption of electrons by another. Both oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously and in equivalent amounts ...

oxidation

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Loss of one or more electrons by an atom, molecule, or ion. Oxidation is accompanied by an increase in oxidation number on the atoms, molecules, or ions that lose electrons.