Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

                                                                                                                                            —Albert Einstein

High Temperature Supersonic Jet Facility

A facility capable of producing high-temperature, high-speed airflow is essential to accurately simulate the exhaust from a jet engine. The High-Temperature Jet Facility at FSU’s Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion laboratories has opened the door to numerous research opportunities for the study of both free and impinging jet flow. This blow-down type facility is supplied by six into a fully anechoic chamber providing the means to accurately perform a multitude of aeroacoustic studies. compressed air storage tanks and employs a sudden expansion ethylene burner to generate jets of air at temperatures up to 2200°F and speeds up to Mach 2.6 (ideally expanded). Single and multiple nozzles of various geometries can be easily implemented, and the integration of supplementary airflow systems permits investigations of various co/counter-flow configurations.