ADVISORY/New Valeo Wind Tunnel Capabilities Support High-Horsepower Truck Testing.Business Editors & Transportation/Automotive Writers ADVISORY...for MONDAY Monday: see week. (Sept. 24) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Valeo, a leading supplier of innovative components, systems, and modules for cars and trucks, has upgraded its Climatic Vehicle Wind Tunnel wind tunnel, apparatus for studying the interaction between a solid body and an airstream. A wind tunnel simulates the conditions of an aircraft in flight by causing a high-speed stream of air to flow past a model of the aircraft (or part of an aircraft) being tested. in Jamestown, N.Y., to support the testing of heavy trucks powered by the biggest available engines. The wind tunnel now features a water-brake dynamometer dynamometer /dy·na·mom·e·ter/ (di?nah-mom´e-ter) an instrument for measuring the force of muscular contraction. dy·na·mom·e·ter n. An instrument for measuring the degree of muscular power. that increases the facility's testing capabilities to include engines that develop up to 1,500 horsepower horsepower, unit of power in the English system of units. It is equal to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute or 550 foot-pounds per second or approximately 746 watts. with torque up to 3,500 foot-pounds. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3984 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion