Air conditioning is essential for new cars. But the fluorocarbon refrigerant HFC-134a — the global standard — is considered an ozone-depleting substance and the European Union passed regulations ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. When physical testing shows that component junction temperatures are too high, the usual approach is to add heatsinks and increase fan performance to ...

Although you are probably not aware of them, dozens of electronic control units (ECUs) — printed circuit boards (PCBs) in metal or plastic housings — exist in your car to control and monitor the ...

The oil and gas production explosion is driving the renaissance of the chemical and process industries in North America. With low-cost natural gas comes low-cost feedstock for many chemical compounds, ...

The use of engineering and scientific simulation techniques to understand and predict the real-world behavior of physical phenomena is widespread across a number of diverse industries. This is true ...