News tagged with jet engines


Red-hot research could lead to new materials

Red-hot research could lead to new materials

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent experiments to create a fast-reacting explosive by concocting it at the nanoscopic level could result in more spectacular firework displays. But more impressive to the Missouri University ...


Study compares sound from exploding volcanoes with jet engines

Study compares sound from exploding volcanoes with jet engines

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New research on infrasound from volcanic eruptions shows an unexpected connection with jet engines. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego speeded up the recorded sounds from two ...





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New metal alloys boost high-temperature heat treatment of jet engine components

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 24, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Measurement scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have reduced the uncertainty of thermocouple temperature sensors at high temperatures to within a degree. This may allow manufacturers to improve efficiency and reduce ...


Fake diamonds help jet engines take the heat

Fake diamonds help jet engines take the heat

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 2

Ohio State University engineers are developing a technology to coat jet engine turbine blades with zirconium dioxide -- commonly called zirconia, the stuff of synthetic diamonds -- to combat high-temperature ...


Jet engines help solve the mysteries of the voice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 13, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Although scientists know about basic voice production—the two "vocal folds" in the larynx vibrate and pulsate airflow from the lungs—the larynx is one of the body's least understood organs.


Skylon

The rocket that thinks it's a jet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- A reusable spaceplane that can take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over twelve tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway could be less than a decade away thanks ...


Superfast airplanes through super tiny technology

Superfast airplanes through super tiny technology

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly ...


Researchers Extend Life of Hot Temperature Electronic Chip

Researchers Extend Life of Hot Temperature Electronic Chip

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 11, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat like never before.


Scientists lower Alaska volcano threat level

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Alaskans can put away their dust masks and spare air filters, for now, because Mount Redoubt seems to have cooled off since its last major eruption nearly three months ago.


Dawn Glides Into New Year

Dawn Glides Into New Year

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February of next year.


Airbus is focusing fuels that can be used in existing aircraft without modifications

Alternative fuel 'can power 15% of flights by 2020'

Technology / Energy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.


Scientists reveal interaction between supersonic fuel spray and its shock wave

Scientists reveal interaction between supersonic fuel spray and its shock wave

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves are a well tested phenomenon on a large scale, but scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators from Wayne State University and Cornell University have ...



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