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FUNNELLING [4 records]

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Record 1 2023-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
CONT

Funnelling occurs when the wind flows through a narrow opening between two adjacent pieces of land, such as a narrow channel between two islands or a narrow river valley. This causes the speed of the wind to increase but does not affect its directions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
CONT

L'effet d'entonnoir se produit lorsque le vent traverse une étroite brèche entre deux éléments adjacents du relief terrestre, comme un étroit chenal entre deux îles ou une étroite vallée fluviale. La vitesse du vent augmente, mais sa direction ne change pas.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
CONT

On the western shores of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, damaging local winds are known as Les Suetes, derived from the word for southeast : sud est. These southeasterlies are created when a frontal inversion causes a funnelling effect over the Cape Breton mountains. As the winds rush down the side of the highlands, strong gusts develop which have been recorded to exceed 150 km/h(94 mph).

CONT

What are Les Suetes winds? The prevailing wind direction in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Highlands is westerly, but for a few weeks of the year strong southeast winds, known locally as "Les Suetes," (from the French "sud est") blow across northern Cape Breton’s open plateau and then crash down the western side of the mountains. The strongest gusts can reach 200 km/h.

CONT

Suêtes are hurricane force south-east winds that beat down on the Acadian French coastal area of northwestern Cape Breton Island, in the eastern Canadian Province of Nova Scotia, Canada in the spring and autumn.

CONT

Les Suetes winds on Cape Breton Island blew just shy of 120 km/h.

OBS

"Les Suêtes" ... is derived from a corruption of the French pronunciation of Southeast, "Sud est."

Key term(s)
  • Les Suêtes winds

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Vent de rabattement qui souffle le long de la côte ouest de l'île du Cap Breton, au Canada, quand le vent est perpendiculaire à l'axe des montagnes.

CONT

Le Suête, les vents de Suête ou les Suêtes, est un vent violent du sud-est qui soufflent le long de la côte ouest de l'île du Cap Breton en Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada, dans certaines conditions météorologiques. Ces vents peuvent atteindre ou dépasser 200 km/h et causer des dommages importantes. De plus, ils vont nuire à la circulation automobile le long de la route de ceinture de l'île. La région de Chéticamp au pied du Parc national des Hautes-Terres-du-Cap-Breton est particulièrement affecté par ce phénomène.

CONT

Dans l’île du Cap-Breton, les suêtes ont soufflé à près de 120 km/h.

OBS

Suête : Le terme provient du Français acadien des gens de cette région et signifie sud-est.

OBS

Les Suêtes sont localement célèbres; l'histoire, la musique et le folklore acadien mentionnent abondamment ces vents du Sud-Est. Le mot Suêtes est le terme acadien donné aux vents du Sud-Est, dans cette région acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse.

OBS

Les noms donnés aux vents ne prennent pas la majuscule. Le mistral, la tramontane, le foehn, le harmattan.

Key term(s)
  • vents suêtes
  • vents de suête

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
CONT

At its core the engine has a twin annular pre-mixing swirler(TAPS) combustor that pre-mixes the air and fuel before they are burned. This is designed to allow the combustion process to be more complete at lower temperatures.... The heart of the combustor is a pair of annular fuel/air "swirls" that pre-mix the two before funnelling the mixture to the relatively conventional combustor. The inner swirler is used for low-thrust requirements in idle and taxiing, while the outer swirler engages for higher thrust settings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs
CONT

En outre, le Leap-X disposera d'une chambre à combustion type Taps (Twin Annular Pre-mixing swirler) à prémélange tourbillonnaire. Cette technologie, déjà en service sur le GEnx, permet à la chambre de combustion de fonctionner avec un mélange air-carburant plus homogène et plus pauvre, donc moins propice à la formation des NOx [oxydes d'azote].

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
DEF

In steelmaking, funnelling billets right from the continuous caster into the rolling mill, thus saving the energy required to reheat cooled-down billets and reducing the steel lost through oxidation.

CONT

At least a global emission reduction target of -30% from 1990 for the EU energy system is required for adopting hot-connection techniques and mainly near-net-shape casting that replace continuous slab casting and hot rolling.

CONT

Thin Slab Casting (TSC). (energy saving through hot-connection). GHG (greenhouse gas) reduction potential: 5 to 20% (vs. use of slab reheating furnaces).

Key term(s)
  • hot connection

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
CONT

Ainsi, la coulée en brames minces jumelée au laminage direct peut permettre une réduction de coûts pouvant atteindre 40 %, par rapport aux procédés traditionnels distincts.

Spanish

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