Research & information: general books

The type of mesh termination used in the context of finite element formulations plays a major role on the efficiency...  Read More >>

At Old Dominion University, we have built Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) Simulator with NASA being...  Read More >>

The dynamic stability and control characteristics of a four-engine turbofan transport model having an upper-surface...  Read More >>

Much of the previous work on load balancing and scheduling in distributed environments was concerned with homogeneous...  Read More >>

Software was developed with NASA support to aid in the analysis and display of the massive amounts of data generated...  Read More >>

A recently proposed kappa-epsilon model for low Reynolds number turbulent flows was modified by introducing a new...  Read More >>

A thermal analytic model for a 30-cm engineering model mercury-ion thruster was developed and calibrated using the...  Read More >>

A full Navier-Stokes analysis was performed to evaluate the performance of the subsonic diffuser of a NASA Lewis...  Read More >>

The use of propellants manufactured from indigenous space materials has the potential to significantly reduce the...  Read More >>

A generalized one-dimensional computer code for analyzing the flow and heat transfer in the turbomachinery cooling...  Read More >>

A methodology is presented for using the Volterra-Wiener theory of nonlinear systems in aeroservoelastic (ASE) analyses...  Read More >>

Described here is a procedure that can be used to calculate the loudness of sonic booms. The procedure is applied...  Read More >>

Verification and validation (V&V) is performed during application development for many systems, especially safety-critical...  Read More >>

A nine-track tape drive interfaced to a standard personal computer was used to transport data from a remote test...  Read More >>

The development of a robot arm proximity sensing skin that can sense intruding objects is described. The purpose...  Read More >>

The detection of explosive conditions in aerospace propulsion applications is important for safety and economic...  Read More >>

The program for analyzing unresolved Mossbauer hyperfine spectra was written in FORTRAN 4 language for the Control...  Read More >>

The Langley Expansion Tube is an operational facility capable of producing good quality, highly repeatable, quasi-steady...  Read More >>

An 'in vitro' method for monitoring cadmium, one of the most lethal bivalent heavy metals, can detect biologically...  Read More >>

Current knowledge of Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Moon, asteroids, comets, and the Galilean satellites were reviewed...  Read More >>

The etch-back epitaxy process is described for producing thin, graded composition GaAlAs layers. The palladium-aluminum...  Read More >>

A technique developed and evaluated for the detection and measurement of surface feature interfaces in remotely...  Read More >>

The performance and estimated material costs for several solar preheaters for domestic hot water heaters using isolation...  Read More >>

A method is described for designing an aerodynamic configuration for a specified performance vector, based on results...  Read More >>

There are no author-identified significant results in this report. Carlson, M. P. and Seevers, P. M. (Principal...  Read More >>