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Designing an efficient and effective compressor requires a detailed understanding of the device’s internal flow field. Experimental measurements provide useful information, but they have some disadva...

This year, Convergent Science turns 25 years old. On December 7, 1997, the seven original founders of Convergent Science—including current co-owners and co-vice presidents Keith Richards, Ke...

Emissions regulations around the globe are becoming increasingly stringent. To design compliant internal combustion (IC) engines, optimizing every component of the engine is key and every small gain...

Many entrepreneurs dream of creating a product that will revolutionize an industry. Starting off with an idea and a vision, only a small fraction manage to bring their dream to fruition. Sometimes, h...

Tamara Gammaidoni We’re thrilled to announce that Tamara Gammaidoni, a graduate student at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, has won the 2022 CONVERGE Academic Competition. The competit...

I grew up in a port town on Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes. As a kid, I would watch, spellbound, as cargo ships pulled into the harbor, amazed by their sheer looming size. As an adult,...

Interest in home improvement has soared since the start of the pandemic, along with demand for the requisite tools. Saws, drills, sanders, and routers—what kind of motor do they use? Ideally...

Wind energy has emerged as one of the major types of renewable energy sources in recent times. In the United States alone, the past decade has seen a 15% growth per year in wind power capaci...

Prevention of solid deposit formation in urea/Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) aftertreatment systems is a primary concern for design engineers. There are significant resource and rep...

2021 was a complicated year. The second full year of the pandemic offered reasons for hope and optimism, along with times of hardship and uncertainty. I sincerely hope that this next year is a turnin...