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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
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
Deep Neural Network as 5-D Image for Threat Avoidance, Alexander W. Denton, Michael P. Riddick, Isaac E. Weintraub, and Donald L. Kunz
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
Preliminary Design of a Re-Configurable Transforming 12U CubeSat for Radar Operations, Toledo Figueroa Toledo and Robert A. Bettinger
Boundary Layer Theory, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
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
Uranium Chemical Compound Classification Using Sub-images and Statistical Machine Learning for Nuclear Forensics, Lee C. Lambert, Brett J. Borghetti, and Abigail A. Bickley
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
Understanding Unity’s ECS Architecture, Brett Martin, Douglas D. Hodson, and Laurence D. Merkle
Supersonic Film Cooling on a Flat Plate, Nicholas V. Medeiros, Marc D. Polanka, and James L. Rutledge
Conceptual Design of a Low-Cost Dual-Satellite Communication Network for the Cislunar Region, Matias A. Ramirez Cisternas and Rachel M. Derbis
Measuring the Effects of Humanitarian Operations on Economic Performance, Matthew Sabol
Public Decision Making in Disaster Relief Operations: The Case of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Matthew Sabol, Abhay Grover, and Martin Dresner
Adiabatic Effectiveness Measurements of Film Cooling in Supersonic Flow, Umberto Sandri, Marc D. Polanka, Alessio Picchi, Antonio Andreini, and Bruno Facchini
Computational Analysis of Salicylic Acid Oxidation: Byproducts and Reaction Pathways, Jaya Das Schober and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Quantification of Heat Loads in Rotating Detonation Combustors for Gas Turbines, Shreyas Ramanagar Sridhara, Umberto Sandri, Pier Carlo Nassini, Antonio Andreini, Marc D. Polanka, and Myles D. Bohon
Integration of Film Cooling in a Micro Rotating Detonation Combustor, Mauro Tagliaferri, Alessio Picchi, Marc D. Polanka, and Antonio Andeini
Film Cooling Applied to a Rotating Detonation Engine, Alex R. Thordson, Marc D. Polanka, Mauro Tagliaferri, and Matthew Longer
Comparison of Methods for Wavelength Determination from Laser Speckle Patterns, Joseph Tompkins, Aaron J. Bonner, and Stephen C. Cain
Exploring critical supplier selection criteria for performance-based contracting: Insights from the defense industry, Hasan Uvet, John Dickens, Justin D'Agostino, and Sanjaya Mayadunne
Applying sequential bifurcation and feed-forward simulation to reduce the prescriptive response time of a digital twin, Ryan B. Walton, Frank W. Ciarallo, and Lance E. Champagne