NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

COMBAT
An Improvement to Situational Force
Scoring for Adjudicating Attrition in Combined
Arms Conflicts – 228
Current Technical Research Issues of
Autonomous Robots Employed in Combat
– 212
Deployable Combat Simulation Via Wireless
Architectures – 12
Development Approaches Coupled with
Verification and Validation Methodologies
for Agent-Based Mission-Level Analytical
Combat Simulations – 201
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Uninhabited
Combat Aerial Vehicles – 13
Validation of Improved Research Integration
Tool (IMPRINT) Driving Model for
Workload Analysis – 179
COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS
A High Efficiency Algorithm for Combinatorial
Synthesis: Maximum Utilization of
Minimal Libraries – 229
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
Fuel-Flexible Gas Turbine Combustor
Flametube Facility – 18
New Reduced Two-Time Step Method for
Calculating Combustion and Emission
Rates of Jet-A and Methane Fuel With
and Without Water Injection – 15
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
Measuring the Effect of Fuel Chemical
Structure on Particulate and Gaseous
Emissions using Isotope Tracing – 139
COMBUSTION
Chemical Kinetic Characterization of
Combustion of Toluene – 46
EUPDF-II: An Eulerian Joint Scalar
Monte Carlo PDF Module : User’s
Manual – 91
Experiments with a PDE Using Multiple
Injection – 30
Flame Retardant Epoxy Resins – 61
Oxidation of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics
in Water Vapor – 61
The Development of a Methodology to
scale Between Cold-Flow and Hot-Fire
Evaluations of Gas-Centered Swirl Coaxial
Injectors – 242
COMETS
Physical Characterization of the Near-
Earth Object Population – 290
The Role of Coherent Detection – 114
COMMAND AND CONTROL
Can Decentralized Command And Control
Complement Network-Centric Warfare?
– 74
Command Control for Many-Robot Systems
– 211
Effect of Modern C2 Assets on Risk
Management of Joint Operational Warfare
– 73
Joint Force Headquarters - Global Strike:
Preserving, Advancing, and Accelerating
Operational Art for the Joint Force Commander
– 73
Low-Cost Miniature Interface and Control
Systems for Smart Sensors, Tactical Radios,
and Computer Networks – 200
Network Centric Warfare - A Tool or Hindrance
to the Operational Commander
– 284
Operational Maneuver from the Sea and
Amphibious Command Relationships: Is
It time for a Joint Force Amphibious Component
Commander? – 72
Stop The Phasing: A Single Integrated
Navy and Marine Air Command and Control
System for Sea-Based Operations
– 74
Team Communication and Performance
During Sustained Command and Control
Operations: Preliminary Results – 202
The Unspoken Consequence of Command,
Control Communications Technology:
Enhanced Micromanagement by
Risk- Averse Commanders – 75
Transforming NATO Command and Control
for Future Missions (Defense Horizons,
Number 28, June 2003) – 75
COMMERCE
NASA’s Productivity Improvement and
Quality Enhancement Initiatives – 267
Some Informal Remarks on the M-Form
Society – 336
The Dana Style: Participation Builds the
Climate for Productivity – 274
COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT
The Development of a New Lateral-
Control Arrangement – 11
COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF PROD-
UCTS
Electrical Devices and Circuits for Low
Temperature Space Applications – 77
COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT
Changing the Low-Cost Launch
Game – 21
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
A Reconfigurable Communications System
for Small Spacecraft – 22
An Introduction to Legal Aspects of Operations
in Cyberspace – 207
Defense Horizons. Number 29, July
2003. Beyond the Mainland: Chinese
Telecommunications Expansion – 75
NERD (Network Enabled Resource Device)
– 205
The Road from Babel: Prospects for Integrated
Office Systems – 204
COMMUTER AIRCRAFT
Development of an LS-DYNA Model of
an ATR42-300 Aircraft for Crash Simulation
– 9
COMPETITION
Building Teams and Maintaining
Trust – 269
COMPLEX SYSTEMS
An Execution Service for Grid Computing
– 204
Efficient Evaluation Functions for Multi-
Rover Systems – 208
Reliability of Complex Nonlinear Numerical
Simulations – 184
Unifying Temporal and Structural Credit
Assignment Problems – 181
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Bonded Repair of Aircraft Composite
Sandwich Structures – 8
Effects of Surface Preparation on the
Long-Term Durability of Adhesively
Bonded Composite Joints – 10
High Strain-Rate and Temperature Effects
on the Response of Composites
– 126
Modeling the VARTM Composite Manufacturing
Process – 61
Nanophase and Composite Optical Materials
– 39
Neural Composite Materials – 39
Predicting the Influence of Nano-Scale
Material Structure on the In-Plane Buckling
of Orthotropic Plates – 121
Telescoping Mechanics: A New Paradigm
for Composite Behavior Simulation
– 125
Thermostructural Analysis of Carbon
Cloth Phenolics "Ply Lifting"
and Correlation to LHMEL Test Results
– 86
COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS
Spectrally Analyzed Embedded Infrared
Fiber Optic Diagnostic of Advanced
Composite Propellant Combustion – 49
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Combined In-Plane and Through-the-
Thickness Analysis for Failure Prediction
of Bolted Composite Joints – 38
Damage Resistance and Tolerance of
Composite Sandwich Panels: Scaling Effects
– 36
Flame Retardant Epoxy Resins – 61
Large Area, Real Time Inspection of
Rocket Motors Using a Novel Handheld
Ultrasound Camera – 125
COMPTON EFFECT
Using Monte-Carlo Simulations to Study
the Disk Structure in Cygnus X-1 – 313
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Aeroacoustic Analysis of a Simplified
Landing Gear – 248
Aerodynamic Design of Heavy Vehicles
Reporting Period September 2001
through January 15, 2002 – 1
Applications of Space-Filling-Curves to
Cartesian Methods for CFD – 183
Automated Parameter Studies Using a
Cartesian Method – 87
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