{"id":90413,"date":"2019-05-07T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/high-speed-experiments-improve-hypersonic-flight-predictions"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:09:28","slug":"high-speed-experiments-improve-hypersonic-flight-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/high-speed-experiments-improve-hypersonic-flight-predictions","title":{"rendered":"High-speed experiments improve hypersonic flight predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-speed-experiments-improve-hypersonic-flight-predictions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational effect of the pressure field beneath one of these tiny hypersonic turbulent spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that these patches of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/turbulence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">turbulence<\/a> are really fast and really small,\u201d said researcher Katya Casper. \u201cThere are thousands of turbulent spots every second in hypersonic flow, and we need really fast techniques to study their behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pressure<\/a> field is key to understanding how intermittent turbulent spots shake an aircraft flying at Mach 5 or greater, Casper said. Hypersonic vehicles are subjected to high levels of fluctuating pressures and must be engineered to withstand the resulting vibrations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-05-high-speed-hypersonic-flight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational effect of the pressure field beneath one of these tiny hypersonic turbulent spots. \u201cThe problem is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}