Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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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.