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Submissions from 2026
An Ontology to support hearing protection device selection and reduce noise-induced hearing loss, Nourhan K. Abouzahra, Cogan M. Shimizu, and Michael E. Miller
Development of an Altitude Conditioning System for Dual Cylinder Two-Stroke Engines, Thomas C. Balaj, Marc D. Polanka, Joseph K. Ausserer, Jacob A. Baranski, and Adam C. Brown
Additively Manufactured Conformal Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Heat Exchanger Design and Evaluation, Tanner S. Barber, John S. Brewer, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, Stephen Richter, Abdeel J. Román, and Zachary J. Carner
MagNet:Magnetic Networks for Navigation, Brandon Blakely, Rajnikant Sharma, Aaron P. Nielsen, and Clark N. Taylor
Design and Testing of a Water-Cooled Center Body in a Small Scale Rotating Detonation Engine, Edward D. Blaney, Frederick R. Schauer, Scott W. Theuerkauf, Brian C. Sell, and Christopher A. Stevens
Direct Collocation Methods for Boost–Glide Vehicle Trajectory Optimization with Newtonian Aerodynamic Model, Andrew T. Bonavita, Michael D. Zollars, Robert B. MacDermott, and Darrell S. Crowe
Characterizing Atmospheric Turbulence with the Lunar Step Response Method, Patrick D. Carattini, Caleb J. Stilp, Katelyn M. Atkinson, and Stephen C. Cain
ANALOGY2KG: An Automatic Pipeline for Deriving Knowledge Graphs from Long-text Analogies, Kara Combs, Lance E. Champagne, Bruce A. Cox, Christine M. Schubert Kabban, Trevor Bihl, and Grace Lemming
Experiments Towards a Neutron Target for Measurements in Inverse Kinematics, S. F. Dellmann; Caroline M. Harrington; O. R. Cantrell; A. L. Cooper; A. Couture; D, V, Gorelov; I Knapová; S. M. Mosby; R. Reifarth; A. Alvarez; A. Aprahamian; J. Butz; I. J. Bos; Michael T. Febbraro; T. Hankins; B. M. Harvey; T. Heftrich; M. Le; Juan J. Manfredi; A. B. McIntosh; K. V. Manukyan; M. Matney; S. Regener; D. Robertson; A. Simon; D. Sokolovic; E. Stech; G. Tabacaru; W. Tan; M. Wiescher; and S. Yennello
Deep Neural Network as 5-D Image for Threat Avoidance, Alexander W. Denton, Michael P. Riddick, Isaac E. Weintraub, and Donald L. Kunz
Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Nanodrug Delivery on Unsteady Herschel–Bulkley Blood Flow in a Stenotic Artery with a Saccular Aneurysm, Ankita Dubey, B. Vasu, O. Anwar Beg, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, and V. Ramachandra Prasad
A Comparison of Modeled Daytime E Regions from E-PROBED and PyIRI with Ionosonde Observations, Daniel J. Emmons, Cornelius C. J. H. Salinas, Dong L. Wu, Nimalan Swarnalingam, Eugene V. Dao, Jorge L. Chau, Yosuke Yamazaki, Kyle E. Fitch, and Victoriya V. Forsythe
Classical ghost imaging with nondiffracting, self-healing light structures in simulated atmospheric turbulence, Joseph D. Fasone, Keith A. Wyman, and Anil K. Patnaik
Preliminary Design of a Re-Configurable Transforming 12U CubeSat for Radar Operations, Toledo Figueroa Toledo and Robert A. Bettinger
Dynamic Magnetic Null Behavior in Planar Ion Diodes: Particle-in-cell Analysis of Field Oscillations and Ion Beam Dynamics, Jesse C. Foster, Stephen B. Swanekamp, and Paul F. Ottinger
Boundary Layer Theory, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
Uncertainty propagation for transient heat transfer in a hollow cylinder, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla and Lochlan Joyce
Small polarons in selenium-doped ferroelectric Sn2P2S6 crystals, Timothy D. Gustafson, Mariacristina Rumi, P. Shiv Halsyamani, Yujie Zhang, Nancy C. Giles, and Larry E. Halliburton
Powdered Activated Carbon Treatment of PFAS‐Containing Washwater from Aircraft Hangar Pipe Rinsing, Jennifer Hensley, Jaya Das Schober, Matthew Magnuson, and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Preliminary 3- and 6-Degree-of-Freedom Investigation of Aerobraking to Support Cislunar Operations, Erica C. Higginbotham, Robert A. Bettinger, and Emma L. Webb
Discovery of Dynamical Structures Mapping Chaotic Transport Pathways in the Earth–Moon CR3BP, Tyler J. Kapolka, Christina E. Paljug, Robert A. Bettinger, Rachel Oliver, Bruce A. Cox, and Jeremiah A. Specht
Nowcasting 3D Cloud Fields Using Forward Warping Optical Flow, Matthew P. King, Jason M. Apke, Steven D. Miller, Katherine Haynes, Yoo-Jeong Noh, and John M. Haynes
Uranium Chemical Compound Classification Using Sub-images and Statistical Machine Learning for Nuclear Forensics, Lee C. Lambert, Brett J. Borghetti, and Abigail A. Bickley
Spline-Based Factor-Graph Optimization with High-Grade Inertial Sensors, Kyle Leland, Clark N. Taylor, David Woodburn, and Randal Beard
A Comprehensive Analysis of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Structures Applied to Additively Manufactured Conformal Heat Exchangers for High-Speed Applications, Nathan Lewan, Mitch Wolff, Abdeel J. Roman, Zachary J. Carner, John S. Brewer, and Tanner S. Barber