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TO SATISFY AIR FORCE REQUIREMENTS TO IMPROVE AVIATION REACTIVE ATMOSPHERES IN A UNIQUE, CONTRACTOR-OWNED ENTRAINED FLOW REACTOR WITH ON-LINE, IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF VOLATILE SPECIES, TEMPERATURE AND RADIATION ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS BY FOURTER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FT-IR) SPECTROSCOPY. THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE THE APPLICATION OF EXISTING CONTRACTOR-DEVELOPED MODELS OF VAPORIZATION, PYROLY ...

A PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED HEREIN TO DEVELOP A NUMERICAL PROCEDURE FOR ANALYZING THE SHIP NUMERICAL PROCEDURE FOR ANALYZING THE SHIP PROPELLER TIP VORTEX PROBLEM. THE FLOW IN THIS REGION IS VERY COMPLEX AS IT CONTAINS THREE-DIMENSIONAL, VISCOUS AND CENTRIFUGAL EFFECTS. THE LONG TERMS GOAL OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT WOULD DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE PREDICTIVE PROCEDURE FOR THE SHIP PROPELLER TIP REGION WITH ...

A PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED HEREIN TO DEVELOP A DESIGN-ORIENTED NAVIER-STOKES CASCADE COMPUTER CODE. DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH CODE WHICH COULD BE RUN SUCCESSFULLY BY A NEW CODE USER WOULD BE A MAJOR BENEFIT IN THE COMPRESSOR OR TURBINE DESIGNPROCESS. UNDER THE PROPOSED EFFORT, BOTH A COORDINATE GENERATION CODE AND A NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER WOULD BE REVISED TO ALLOW STRAIGHT-FORWARD IMPLEMENTATION. IN ADDITION ...

THERE HAS BEEN IN THE PAST, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE FUTURE, APPLICATIONS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY THREE-TERMINAL DEVICES. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY DEVICES HAS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS OF A NUMBER OF NEW DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS. THESE INCLUDE THE PERMEABLE BASE TRANSISTOR, THE PLANER DOPED BARRIER RESISTOR, THE HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR, THE SUB-MICRON GATE G ...

COMPOSITE MATERIALS SUCH AS GRAPHIT/EPOXY AND KEVLAR/EPOXY OFFER THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE WEIGHT, RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS), AND MANUFACTURED COSTS IN FLIGHT VEHCILE STRUCTURES. THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO APPLY THESE BENEFITS TO AFAL'S LOW ALTITUDE DISPENSER (LAD). AT THE SAME TIME THE CURRENT 11" PAYLOAD BAY WOULD BE INCREASED TO 12" TO INCREASE PAYLOAD VOLUME AND EFFICIENT MUNITIONS PACKING. AFT ...

THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN IMPROVED NON-INTRUSIVE METHOD OF TEMPERATURE DETERMINATION FOR PULVERIZED COAL COMBUSTION BASED ON FT-IR SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT OF ITS EMISSIONS. IN PHASE I SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS WILL BE MADE OF THE RADIATION FROM COMBUSTING COAL PARTICLES IN A LABORATORY FURNACE. TEMPERATURE DETERMINATION WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED USING VISUAL AND ANALYTIC COMPARISON TECHNIQUES, THE LA ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A LOW COST, MOTION SENSITIVE RELIABLE INFANT APNEA MONITOR FOR BOTH HOME AND HOSPITAL APPLICATIONS. THE PROPOSED APNEA MONITOR ATTACHES DIRECTLY TO THE PATIENTS, SIMPLIFYING THE MONITORING PROCESS. CURRENTLY MONITORING IS LIMITED TO A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HIGH-RISK INFANTS (NEAR-MISS AND SIBLINGS OF SIDS VICTIMS) BECAUSE OF THE HIGH COST, COMPLEXITY AND ANXIETY INCURRED BY ...

TECHNIQUES WILL BE USED TO DESIGN A ROBOT JAMMER WHICH CAN DEVISE AN OPTIMUM JAMMING STRATEGY. A MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE IN WHICH THE JAMMER WILL OPERATE WILL BE DEVELOPED. THIS MODEL WILL INCLUDE THE VARIOUS FORMS OF ACTIVITY THAT CAN OCCUR WITHIN THE ADVERSARY SYSTEM, ACTIONS THAT THE JAMMER CAN TAKE, AND MODES OF OPERATION DEFINING THE PURPOSE OF THE JAMMING. THE JAMMER'S KNOWLEDGE OF ADVERESARY ...

A PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED HEREIN TO NUMERICALLY INVESTIGATE THE UNSTEADY DYNAMICS OF HAIRPIN VORTICS SUBMERGED IN VARIOUS BACKGROUND FLOWS. THE COMPUTER CODE TO BE USED WAS DEVELOPED FOR CALCULATING UNSTEADY THREE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER FLOWS ON WINGS AND IS CAPABLE OF TREATING NEGATIVE CROSS FLOW AND STREAMWISE REVERSE FLOW. UNDER PHASE I OF THE CURRENT PROPOSAL, THE BACKGROUND FLOW W ...

A PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED HEREIN TO EXTEND A RECENTLY DEVELOPED LABRYINTH SEAL ANALYSIS TO ENABLE IT TO BE APPLIED TO MORE ADVANCED SEALS WHICH HAVE RECENTLY BEEN PROPOSED FOR USE IN ADVANCED HIGH PERFORMANCE AXIAL TURBOMACHINERY. UNDER PHASE I OF THIS EFFORT, THE NECESSARY INITIAL COORDINATE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENABLE THE CURVED SEAL LIPS CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE ADVANCED DESIG ...