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Submissions from 2022
Shock Front Detachment during Pulsed Laser Ablation of Graphite, Timothy I. Calver, Michael B. Shattan, and Glen P. Perram
Studying the Conditions for Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares with and without Precursor Flares, Seth H. Garland, Daniel J. Emmons, and Robert D. Loper
Submissions from 2021
Patents by Current and Past AFIT Faculty, Air Force Institute of Technology
A Radial Basis Function Finite Difference Scheme for the Benjamin–Ono Equation, Benjamin F. Akers, Tony Liu, and Jonah A. Reeger
Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Jet Fuel for the U.S. Department of Defense, Colin M. Beal, Amanda D. Cuellar, and Torrey J. Wagner
Meta-Heuristic Optimization Methods for Quaternion-Valued Neural Networks, Jeremiah Bill, Lance E. Champagne, Bruce Cox, and Trevor J. Bihl
Robust Method of Determining Microfacet BRDF Parameters in the Presence of Noise via Recursive Optimization, Michael W. Bishop, Samuel D. Butler, and Michael A. Marciniak
Performance-Based Building System Manufacturer Selection Decision Framework for Integration into Total Cost of Ownership Evaluations, Sarah L. Brown, Steven J. Schuldt, Michael N. Grussing, Louis B. Bartels, Michael A. Johnson, and Justin D. Delorit
An Assessment of the Spatial Variation of Isotopic Ratios in a CANDU Reactor for Nuclear Treaty Monitoring, Aaron W. Burkhardt, James E. Bevins, and Stephen H. Baxter
Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Flying/Handling Qualities Using a Stitched Learjet Model, Patrick M. Callaghan and Donald L. Kunz
Terrain‐referenced Navigation Using a Steerable‐laser Measurement Sensor, Jason D. Carroll and Aaron J. Canciani
Terrain‐referenced Navigation Using a Steerable‐laser Measurement Sensor, Jason D. Carroll and Aaron J. Canciani
Method of making temperature-immune self-referencing Fabry–Pérot cavity sensors, Hengky Chandrahalim and Jonathan W. Smith
Temperature-immune self-referencing Fabry–Pérot cavity sensors, Hengky Chandrahalim and Jonathan W. Smith
Micromechanically enabled microcavity on optical fiber tips, Hengky Chandrahalim, Jeremiah C. Williams, Jonathan W. Smith, Joseph S. Suelzer, and Nicholas G. Usechak
Measurement of the 160Gd(p,n)160Tb Excitation Function from 4–18 MeV using Stacked-target Activation, Ryan K. Chapman, Andreq S. Voyles, Narek Gharibyan, Lee A. Bernstein, and James E. Bevins
Opportunities for Robustness of Water Footprints in Electricity Generation, Christopher M. Chini and Justin D. Delorit
A Review of Energy-for-water Data in Energy-water Nexus Publications, Christopher M. Chini, Lauren E. Excell, and Ashlynn S. Stillwell
The Traded Water Footprint of Global Energy from 2010 to 2018, Christopher M. Chini and Rebecca A. M. Peer
Defect Detection in Atomic Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Images Using Machine Learning, Philip Cho, Aihua W. Wood, Krishnamurthy Mahalingam, and Kurt Eyink
Analytical Aircraft State and IMU Signal Generator from Smoothed Reference Trajectory, Austin Costley, Randall Christensen, Robert C. Leishman, and Greg Droge
A Simulation–optimization Framework for Post-disaster Allocation of Mental Health Resources, Stephen Cunningham, Steven J. Schuldt, Christopher M. Chini, and Justin D. Delorit
Prioritizing Facilities Linked to Corporate Strategic Objectives Using a Fuzzy Model, Devin DePalmer, Steven J. Schuldt, and Justin D. Delorit
Selective Laser Melting of Tungsten-Rhenium Alloys, Cayla C. Eckley, Ryan A. Kemnitz, Christopher P. Fassio, Carl R. Hartsfield, and Todd A. Leonhardt
The Flow of a Micropolar Nanofluid Past a Stretched and Shrinking Wedge Surface with Absorption, H. A. El-Dawy and Rama S. R. Gorla