adiabatic expansion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an adiabatic process. From Dictionary.com.
"… there need be no entropy generated in adiabatic processes – which occur frequently in living systems …". From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris] Reference
Air must be compressed, then cooled, and then allow to expand, this is called adiabatic cooling. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Cv, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This is called the adiabatic lapse rate, and it’s a simple consequence of Boyle’s Law. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Primer on Global Warming] Reference
28-qubit quantum computer, tapping a quantum mechanical concept known as the adiabatic theorem. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Look up adiabatic expansion and potential temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit] Reference
Look up “moist adiabatic lapse rate” for more information. From Wordnik.com. [Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit] Reference
But also, adiabatic cooling is dependent on an input of energy. From Wordnik.com. [More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit] Reference
The dry adiabatic lapse rate is about -10 degrees K/km altitude. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #7 « Climate Audit] Reference
The numbers you quote are for the moist adiabatic lapse rate, btw. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #18 « Climate Audit] Reference
Taking air from there to the surface would give adiabatic heating. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit] Reference
Cooling by adiabatic demagnetization is well established in physics. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
The derivation of adiabatic lapse for cooling rate is approxiamtely constant. From Wordnik.com. [IPCC and the Al Gore Hockey Stick « Climate Audit] Reference
But let us assume that we have a compressor which shows an adiabatic pressure line. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference
Once the evaporative cooling takes place, the lapse rate approaches super adiabatic. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit] Reference
The met world calls this the DALR dry adiabatic lapse rate = 3 degrees per 1000 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry North's Suggested Reading on Climate Models « Climate Audit] Reference
In an adiabatic situation atoms will align into cyrstals because that is most energetically favorable. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Hyperion] Reference
In cosmology, you can set up an evolution that is pretty darn adiabatic, if you are sufficiently careful. From Wordnik.com. [Against Bounces] Reference
And those adiabatic mountain winds, or whatever you call them, blowing in any old unpredictable direction. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
We analyze the CMB temperature anisotropies generated by a single-mode adiabatic superhorizon perturbation. From Wordnik.com. [Superhorizon Perturbations and the Cosmic Microwave Background] Reference
In other words the sort of adiabatic approximation used for an accreting WD is possibly more or less valid. From Wordnik.com. [Merging White Dwarfs Set Off Supernovae | Universe Today] Reference
When the air is forced to rise in altitude because of the topographic barrier, it is cooled by adiabatic expansion. From Wordnik.com. [Precipitation and fog] Reference
So the plasma around the sun spirals in by losing energy and the above process occurs in a fairly adiabatic manner. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
Immediately after lifting begins, the rising parcel of warm moist air begins to cool because of adiabatic expansion. From Wordnik.com. [Thunderstorm] Reference
The temperature drop with altitude is primarily a function of gravitational potential energy and adiabatic expansion. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry North's Suggested Reading on Climate Models « Climate Audit] Reference
The adiabatic demagnetization technique actually interfered with measurements and destroyed what I was trying to see. From Wordnik.com. [Another smackdown of Dembski & Marks - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I did adiabatic expansion and steam table problems until I was blue in the face, but I did get through it with a good grade. From Wordnik.com. [Thermodynamics and weight loss | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
This process is also active in the saturated adiabatic process described in my earlier post #132 on adiabatic heating and cooling. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit] Reference
The emissivity responds to many factors like density, temperature, adiabatic lost of energy, gravity, geometry of the system, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit] Reference
Table 7 k values to be used in the adiabatic equation for short circuits up to 5 second duration (source: Kempe Engineer's Yearbook). From Wordnik.com. [1. Fundamental principles of electrical control systems] Reference
The only thing I know would be close to that would be if it was on the adiabatic warming side and went to the adiabatic cooling side. From Wordnik.com. [Adjusting for the "Rural Cooling Effect" « Climate Audit] Reference
Giauque, who extended the temperature range experimentally accessible by introducing the method of adiabatic demagnetization in 1933. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry] Reference
The bodies of air at the floor of the Grand Canyon are subject to adiabatic heating and confinement restricting convection and radiation. From Wordnik.com. [Raising Arizona « Climate Audit] Reference
As the parcel rises it cools as a result of adiabatic expansion at a rate of approximately 10° Celsius per 1,000 meters until saturation. From Wordnik.com. [Cloud formation processes] Reference
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