Research & information: general books

A discussion is presented of some significant aspects of the initial flight qualification and operational maintenance...  Read More >>

A high-speed shear layer is studied using compressibility corrected Reynolds stress turbulence model which employs...  Read More >>

Checklists are used by the flight crew to properly configure an aircraft for safe flight and to ensure a high level...  Read More >>

Veterans Health Administration, interim report: review of patient wait times, scheduling practices, and alleged...  Read More >>

TURBO-AD is an interactive solution adaptive grid generation program under development. The program combines an...  Read More >>

The Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS) Breadboard Project at the John F. Kennedy Space Center is...  Read More >>

Two laser systems have been built and used to demonstrate enhancements beyond current technology used for laser-based...  Read More >>

USPTO's other backlog: past problems and risks ahead for the Board of Patent Appeals.  Read More >>

This paper describes a control synthesis methodology that emphasizes a variable-gain output feedback technique that...  Read More >>

A 22-percent dynamically scaled replica of the X-29A forward-swept-wing airplane has been flown in radio-controlled...  Read More >>

This paper presents the complete forward and inverse kinematics solutions for control of the three degree-of-freedom...  Read More >>

Kennedy Space Center, the single largest purchaser of liquid hydrogen (LH2) in the United States, evaluated current...  Read More >>

The present work documents the computational results for a combined computational and experimental parametric study...  Read More >>

Critical phenomena has been the subject of physics research for many years. However, only in recent years has the...  Read More >>

USPTO deployed wireless capability with minimal consideration for IT security.  Read More >>

The Space Exploration Initiative has generated a renewed interest in lunar mission planning. The lunar missions...  Read More >>

Large-displacement elastic and elastic-plastic, finite-element stress-strain analyses of an oxygen-tree high-conductivity...  Read More >>

A preliminary analysis of the various passive radiation detector materials included in the P0006 LETSME experiment...  Read More >>

A short survey of recent research on Krylov subspace methods with emphasis on implementation on vector and parallel...  Read More >>

Stationary vortex instabilities with wavelengths significantly larger than the thickness of the underlying three-dimensional...  Read More >>

Presented here are kinematic equations for a six degree of freedom force-reflecting hand controller. The forward...  Read More >>

Remote cryogenic temperature measurements can be made by inducing fluorescence in phosphors with temperature-dependent...  Read More >>

The LLOFX computer program calculates in-plane trajectories from an Earth-orbiting space station to Lunar orbit...  Read More >>

In recent years, the interest in developing a high-speed civil transport has increased. This has led to an increase...  Read More >>

In a fault-tolerant parallel computer, a functional programming model can facilitate distributed checkpointing,...  Read More >>