Research & information: general books

The spacecraft launched by NASA on November 3, 1973 to explore Venus and Mercury proved a notable success as a development...  Read More >>

Qualitative reasoning is reasoning with a small set of qualitative values that is an abstraction of a larger and...  Read More >>

The research accomplished during 1995 can be organized into three parts. The first task involves analyzing the results...  Read More >>

Three major topics were addressed, one theoretical and two observational. The topics were: (1) an attempt to understand...  Read More >>

In heavy ion reactions, neutron production at forward angles is observed to occur with a Gaussian shape that is...  Read More >>

A simple downburst model is developed for use in batch and real-time piloted simulation studies of guidance strategies...  Read More >>

The purpose of this report is to provide a description of the overall thrust, past relevant accomplishments and...  Read More >>

The primary objective of this grant was to further the development of a global transport/chemistry model that simulates...  Read More >>

Time has historically been a measure of progress of recurrent physical processes. Coordination of future actions,...  Read More >>

Advanced earth orbital spacecraft system (AEOSS) enables users to project the required power, weight, and cost for...  Read More >>

The proposed National Aerospace Plane (NASP) is designed to travel at speeds up to Mach 25. Because aerodynamic...  Read More >>

For many years the work at MIT aimed at the development of new concepts and technologies for space experiments in...  Read More >>

The application of probability density function (pdf) turbulence models is addressed. For the purpose of accurate...  Read More >>

During geometry processing, tangent directions at the data points are frequently readily available from the computation...  Read More >>

In order to control the quality of software and the software development process, it is important to understand...  Read More >>

We quantitatively compare a particle implementation of the adhesion approximation to fully non-linear, numerical...  Read More >>

Alkali metal boilers are of interest for application to future space Rankine cycle power conversion systems. Significant...  Read More >>

A component acquisition plan contains the information needed to evaluate, select, and acquire software and hardware...  Read More >>

A simplified procedure is developed to decode the three possible erors in a (23,12) Golay codeword. A computer simulation...  Read More >>

We have developed a prototype spectrometer for space applications requiring long term absolute EUV photon flux measurements....  Read More >>

Several bacterial isolates enriched from seawater using complex media were able to accumulate dimethylsulfoniopropionate...  Read More >>

Tropospheric chemical transformations of alternative hydrofluorocarbons (HCF's) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC's)...  Read More >>

The role of experiment in the development of Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for aerodynamic flow prediction is...  Read More >>

In-situ HO(x) (OH and HO2) measurements are an essential part of understanding the photochemistry of aircraft exhaust...  Read More >>

AAE 451 is the capstone course required of all senior undergraduates in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics...  Read More >>