{"id":114361,"date":"2020-10-13T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=114361"},"modified":"2021-06-14T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:09:16","slug":"ucf-researchers-are-working-on-tech-so-machines-can-thermally-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researchers-are-working-on-tech-so-machines-can-thermally-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researchers Are Working on Tech So Machines Can Thermally \u2018Breathe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the era of electric cars, machine learning and ultra-efficient vehicles for space travel<\/a>, computers and hardware are operating faster and more efficiently. But this increase in power comes with a trade-off: They get superhot.<\/p>\n

To counter this, University of Central Florida researchers<\/a> are developing a way for large machines to \u201cbreathe\u201d in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.<\/p>\n

The findings are detailed in a recent study in the journal Physical Review Fluids<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The process is much like how humans and some animals breath in air to cool their bodies down, except in this case, the machines would be breathing in cool blasts of water, says Khan Rabbi, a doctoral candidate in UCF\u2019s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/a> and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n