Research & information: general books

An array deployment assembly, power regulation and control assembly, the necessary interface, and display and control...  Read More >>

A study of the solar power satellite system, which represents a means of tapping baseload electric utility power...  Read More >>

Drag caused by separated flow behind the hub of a helicopter has an adverse effect on aerodynamic performance of...  Read More >>

The 1993 Advanced Design Project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was to design a spacecraft as a technology...  Read More >>

Advanced aircraft configurations offer new transportation options for the Pacific Basin. Described is a range of...  Read More >>

A numerically generated expression to determine crack length in a compact tension specimen from back face strain...  Read More >>

Empirical probabilities are provided for good, marginal, and poor flying weather for ferrying the Space Shuttle...  Read More >>

The goal of the project was to develop a methodology for fusion of a Laser Range Imaging Device (LRID) and camera...  Read More >>

This paper looks at the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of NASA's Space Shuttle Day of Launch I-Load...  Read More >>

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has established a goal of a 20 EPNdB reduction of aircraft noise...  Read More >>

The stoichiometric combustion of propane behind incident shock waves was studied experimentally and analytically...  Read More >>

One issue which is central in developing a general purpose Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) subroutine on a distributed...  Read More >>

Off design aerodynamic performance of the solid version of a cooled radial inflow turbine is analyzed. Rotor surface...  Read More >>

A flight experiment which proposes to use a 60-m deployable/retractable truss beam attached to the Space Shuttle...  Read More >>

Work performed from 1 Jan. - 30 Jun. 1992 is reported. The topics covered include the following: the radial pulsation...  Read More >>

A general analysis suitable for developing speckle effect instruments and a simplified analysis suitable for evaluating...  Read More >>

Grid adaptation for structured meshes is the art of using information from an existing, but poorly resolved, solution...  Read More >>

An investigation was conducted to determine the supersonic longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of 0.015 scale...  Read More >>

The equations Laplacian operator omega = 0, (1.1a) and omega = Laplacian operator Chi, (1.1b) describe, in suitable...  Read More >>

An attempt is made to provide a step-by-step approach to the subject of finite fields. Rigorous proofs and highly...  Read More >>

A direct procedure is presented for locally bicubic interpolation on a structured, curvilinear, two-dimensional...  Read More >>

As subsonic jet engine designs incorporate higher bypass ratios to reduce jet noise and increase engine cycle efficiency,...  Read More >>

This paper describes the design, specification, and performance of a Loss Tolerant Rate Controller (LTRC) for use...  Read More >>

Commercial processes for the gasification of coal with oxygen are discussed. The Koppers-Totzek process for the...  Read More >>

High-temperature thin-shell leading-edge buckling test data are analyzed using NASA structural analysis (NASTRAN)...  Read More >>