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Articles: Research Lab
Over the course of its history, NASA has nurtured partnerships with the private sector to facilitate the transfer of NASA-developed technologies. The benefits of these partnerships have reached...
Articles: Research Lab
Innovators at NASA’s Glenn Research Center design game-changing spaceflight technologies that advance exploration of our solar system. They have also established themselves as global leaders in aeronautics by...
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
Creating a scientific field just out of societal and policy need is a bold concept. But Los Alamos National Laboratory and Indiana University researchers say that for the emerging field of...
Articles: Research Lab
In the 1960s, NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, all but hidden away in the piney woods of south Mississippi, built a reputation of excellence in testing the massive first and second stages of the Saturn rocket...
Articles: Research Lab
The Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, is NASA’s primary center for atmospheric flight research and operations. Dryden plays a vital role in advancing technology and science through...
Eye on Innovation: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Given the current economic conditions, companies must continue to deliver existing products as they develop the products of tomorrow, without increasing the engineering...
Briefs: Materials
Electrolytes comprising LiPF6 dissolved in alkyl carbonate/fluoroester mixtures have been found to afford improved low-temperature performance and greater high-temperature resilience in...
Articles: Research Lab
The fourth servicing mission (SM-4) for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) offered an impressive and unprecedented set of advanced technologies that may yield the most...
Articles: Research Lab
In 2007, we focused on the global climate, and as gas prices soared, more novel technologies emerged in the development of alternative fuel and power sources. Once again, electronics and computers became smaller,...
Articles: Research Lab
By Mike Santori National Instruments Business & Technology Fellow National Instruments Austin, TX
High-tech companies live and die by their ability to innovate. Creating new products and technologies is essential to...
Application Briefs: Research Lab
NASA Institute Studies and Identifies Martian Land Formations
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston is part of the Universities Space Research Association, and is a NASAfunded institute that conducts research in the lunar, planetary, and terrestrial sciences on behalf of university science departments and NASA. The most recent project...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Extension of Liouville Formalism to Postinstability Dynamics
A mathematical formalism has been developed for predicting the postinstability motions of a dynamic system governed by a system of nonlinear equations and subject to initial conditions. Previously, there was no general method for prediction and mathematical modeling of postinstability...
Briefs: Research Lab
Inhibited Carrier Transfer in Ensembles of Quantum Dots
A report presents an experimental study of time-resolved, temperature-dependent photoluminescence in InxGa1–x As/GaAs specimens containing In0.6Ga0.4As quantum dots (QDs) distributed at several different areal densities on a GaAs surface and capped with GaAs. The specimens were fabricated by...
Briefs: Information Technology
A method of massively parallel computation on supercomputers has been developed to facilitate numerical simulation of electromagnetic fields in the vicinities of electrically large and...
Briefs: Research Lab
Characteristics of Supercritical Transitional Mixing Layers
This report describes a study of threedimensional, temporal mixing layers between different fluids initially flowing at different velocities under supercritical conditions. The study involved direct numerical simulations by use of a validated mathematical model of high-pressurefluid...
Briefs: Medical
Combinatorial Drug Design Augmented by Information Theory
A proposed method of designing antiviral drugs provides for the utilization of combinatorial-chemistry techniques that have been used previously for this purpose, in conjunction with applicable principles of information theory. In its information-theoretic aspect, the method can be...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A mathematical model has been developed for use in analyzing the dynamics of an isothermal, non-chemically-reacting mixture of particles in a bubbling fluidized bed. Although the model...
Briefs: Research Lab
Multiphase-Flow Model of Fluidized-Bed Pyrolysis of Biomass
A report presents additional information about the subject matter of “Model of Pyrolysis of Biomass in a Fluidized- Bed Reactor” (NPO-20708) NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 25, No. 6 (June 2001), page 59. The model is built on equations for the dynamics of three components — gas, sand, and...
Briefs: Research Lab
Improved Spherical Energy Analyzer
An improved spherical energy analyzer (a type of electrostatic mass spectrometer) is under development for use in analyzing a beam of ions generated by a Hall thruster. The major improvement, relative to a commercial spherical energy analyzer, is the addition of a quadrupole stage (with refocusing electron optics)...
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