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Software Tech Briefs is a special supplement to NASA Tech Briefs. Download the digital version (PDF) at right to learn about 58 new software programs outlined in the table of contents below.
Table of Contents
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
4 Multiphysics Modeling Helps SONAR “Listen” to Material Properties
6 Rotating-Pump Design Code
7 Rapid Aeroelastic Analysis of Blade Flutter in Turbomachines
7 Thermal Model of a Current-Carrying Wire in a Vacuum
8 Compressible Flow Toolbox
8 Code for Multiblock CFD and Heat-Transfer Computations
8 General Flow-Solver Code for Turbomachinery Applications
ELECTRONICS/COMPUTERS
9 High-Level Performance Modeling of SAR Systems
9 Spectral Analysis Tool 6.2 for Windows
10 Multi-Platform Avionics Simulator
MATERIALS
10 Probabilistic Prediction of Lifetimes of Ceramic Parts
11 STRANAL-PMC Version 2.0
11 Micromechanics and Piezo Enhancements of HyperSizer
MECHANICS
11 Loci-STREAM Version 0.9
12 The Synergistic Engineering Environment
12 Reconfigurable Software for Controlling Formation Flying
13 More About the Tetrahedral Unstructured Software System
13 Computing Flows Using Chimera and Unstructured Grids
14 Avoiding Obstructions in Aiming a High-Gain Antenna
14 Analyzing Aeroelastic Stability of a Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
14 Tracking Positions and Attitudes of Mars Rovers
15 Stochastic Evolutionary Algorithms for Planning Robot Paths
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
15 Simulating Responses of Gravitational-Wave Instrumentation
18 SOFTC: A Software Correlator for VLBI
18 Progress in Computational Simulation of Earthquakes
19 Program for Analyzing Flows in a Complex Network
19 Computing Spacecraft Solar-Cell Damage by Charged Particles
19 Automated Camera Calibration
20 Tracking the Martian CO2 Polar Ice Caps in Infrared Images
20 Program Predicts Performance of Optical Parametric Oscillators
20 Database of Properties of Meteors
21 SmaggIce Version 1.8
21 Processing TES Level-1B Data
21 Processing TES Level-2 Data
INFORMATION SCIENCES
22 Improvement in Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation of Data
23 Using Heaps in Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation of Data
23 Tool for Statistical Analysis and Display of Landing Sites
24 Automated Assignment of Proposals to Reviewers
24 Array-Pattern-Match Compiler for Opportunistic Data Analysis
24 Pre-Processor for Compression of Multispectral Image Data
25 Compressing Image Data While Limiting the Effects of Data Losses
25 Flight Operations Analysis Tool
26 Improvement in Visual Target Tracking for a Mobile Robot
26 Software for Simulating Air Traffic
27 Automated Vectorization of Decision-Based Algorithms
27 Grayscale Optical Correlator Workbench
27 “One-Stop Shopping” for Ocean Remote-Sensing and Model Data
28 State Analysis Database Tool
28 Generating CAHV and CAHVOR Images With Shadows in ROAMS
29 Improving UDP/IP Transmission Without Increasing Congestion
29 FORTRAN Versions of Reformulated HFGMC Codes
29 Program for Editing Spacecraft Command Sequences
30 Flight-Tested Prototype of BEAM Software
30 Mission Scenario Development Workbench
31 Marsviewer
31 Tool for Analysis and Reduction of Scientific Data
31 ASPEN Version 3.0
32 Secure Display of Space-Exploration Images
