Engineering: general books

The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Next Generation upgrade proposes a fundamental transformation to thenational...  Read More >>

This thesis is a reference for the Advanced Application Flight Experiment (AAFE) altimeter. The transmitter and...  Read More >>

A one-dimensional fluid model of a surface-type dielectric barrier discharge is created using He as the background...  Read More >>

A controller is designed for an aircraft to autonomously fly formation during aerial refueling. Requirements for...  Read More >>

Forward-Looking Airborne Radar (FLAR) Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) has not achieved the same level of radar...  Read More >>

For a robot to build a map of its surrounding area it must have accurate position information within the area and...  Read More >>

Microstrip patch antennas were first investigated from the idea that it would be highly advantageous to fabricate...  Read More >>

Most objects tracked in space follow a regular Keplerian orbit; unfortunately, non-Keplerian objects such as maneuvering...  Read More >>

The research presented here is a follow on to previous efforts [Pachter, Barba, 2007] in which a tight control loop...  Read More >>

Closed loop instability caused by excess phase lag induced by actuator rate limiting has been suspected in many...  Read More >>

A significant amount of research has been aimed toward turbine blade surface roughness, freestream turbulence, and...  Read More >>

The contribution of this research is three-fold. The first is a method of converting the area occupied by a circuit...  Read More >>

A methodology is presented which allows comparison between models constructed under different modeling paradigms....  Read More >>

This study investigated the design parameters necessary for the construction and use of a testing facility built...  Read More >>

Although jamming of radar's has been in vogue for nearly 50 years there appears to be no comprehensive report on...  Read More >>

The theory behind the use of layers of radar absorbing materials or other dielectric materials is identical to the...  Read More >>

This research is an extension to the research conducted by K. Leka and G. Barnes of the Colorado Research Associates...  Read More >>

Test and evaluation of the United States Air Force's latest aircraft escape system technology requires accurate...  Read More >>

This research investigates the benefits of using several phase modulated Random Stepped Frequency (RSF) waveforms...  Read More >>

The Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI), is a part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that houses...  Read More >>

This research effort employs a System Dynamics methodology to model Air Force aircraft production break costs. The...  Read More >>

This paper speculates on the future of oil energy and the oil strategy during the 21st century. Although, there...  Read More >>

A commonly accepted airborne phased array radar model simplifies the analytical derivation by assuming a waveform...  Read More >>

The total electron content (TEC) contribution to a Parameterized Real-time Ionospheric Specification Model (PRISM)...  Read More >>

Coherent pulse train processing is most commonly used in airborne pulse Doppler radar, achieving adequate transmitter/receiver...  Read More >>