{"id":97913,"date":"2019-05-29T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//?p=97913"},"modified":"2020-08-21T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:51:27","slug":"ucf-discovery-allow-travel-coast-coast-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//ucf-discovery-allow-travel-coast-coast-30-minutes/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Discovery Could Allow Travel from Coast to Coast in Under 30 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

People can travel from the 海角直播 to Orlando International Airport in about 30 minutes, barring heavy traffic. But what if they could travel from New York to Los Angeles in that time or less?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n

A recent discovery made at UCF could bring travelers one step closer to turning that fantasy into reality. The results of the study were recently published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n

Aerospace engineering Professor Kareem Ahmed and his research team in the UCF Propulsion and Energy Research Lab found that subsonic flames, like those in a candle or a campfire, can be turned into hypersonic flames. With a certain amount of /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/u201cturbulent mixing,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/u201d hypersonic flames burn at an extremely high rate./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n

Turbulent mixing refers to the right recipe that converts a flame into a self-sustaining explosion that uses all of the ingested fuel and air to release a massive amount of energy./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n

This discovery can provide insight into dealing with intense fires and massive explosions, but it can also be used to create engines and aircrafts that would allow people to travel by plane or train from one coast to another in fewer than 30 minutes./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n

The goal is to use this knowledge to design engines that propel objects at five times the speed of sound or above, using less fuel. More research would be needed to determine the effects of this kind of travel on the human body, as well as to develop controlled environments for passengers and pilots./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/u201cThis new discovery is key for using these high-Mach fast flames for hypersonic air-breathing scramjet propulsion engines, a specific type of engine that can propel an aircraft to five times the speed of sound and above,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/u201d Ahmed says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/u201cAnd it will aid in fighting intense fires and explosions./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/97913/n