Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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turbocharger

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A turbine driven by exhaust gases that increases engine power by forcing relatively large amounts of air into the cylinders of an engine.

Ultracapacitors are higher specific energy and power versions of electrolytic capacitors—devices that store energy as an electrostatic charge. They are electrochemical systems that store energy in a ...

vehicle systems

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Full spectrum of components and subsystems, as well as their configuration, that determines the attributes of a vehicle.

vortex shedding

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Swirling flow generated by a stream of fluid flowing past a flow obstruction, such as a solid body.

vorticity

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Vector measure of local rotation in a fluid flow.

wastegate

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A valve used to limit the boost developed in a turbocharger. A wastegate allows some of an engine's exhaust flow to bypass the turbocharger's turbine under certain conditions.

x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Analytical technique in which information about the surface of a specimen is obtained by studying the spectrum of photoelectrons emitted from the surface when it is bombarded by x-ray photons.