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Submissions from 2026
Optimizing Warranty Policies for Remanufactured Products: When Should They Be Longer, Shorter, or Identical to New Product Warranties?, Kunpeng Li and Jun-Yeon Lee
Understanding Unity’s ECS Architecture, Brett Martin, Douglas D. Hodson, and Laurence D. Merkle
Correlations between Z-Tilt, G-Tilt, and Centroid Motion, Jack E. McCrae, Santasri Bose-Pillai, and Steven T. Fiorino
Supersonic Film Cooling on a Flat Plate, Nicholas V. Medeiros, Marc D. Polanka, and James L. Rutledge
Pixelated plastic scintillator array manufacturing using fast-, photo-curable resin, C. J. Moore, Juan J. Manfredi, Michael T. Febbraro, D. Rustrom, A. Decker, Ryan A. Kemnitz, T. J. Ruland, and Paul A. Hausladen
Cislunar space and lunar surface surveillance capabilities of butterfly orbits using the CR3BP, Contessa G. Norris and Robert A. Bettinger
Transfer Learning Neural Networks for Nuclear Forensic Image Morphology Using Image Splitting Techniques, Niko A. Petrocelli, Lee C. Lambert, Brett J. Borghetti, and Abigail A. Bickley
Improving Hydrogen Storage Kinetics of Polymeric Composites via Additions of La0.6Ce0.4Ni5 and Carbon Particles, Muhammad M. Rahman, Fenil J. Desai, Ramazan Asmatulu, Md. Nizam Uddin, and Karina Suarez-Alcantara
Conceptual Design of a Low-Cost Dual-Satellite Communication Network for the Cislunar Region, Matias A. Ramirez Cisternas and Rachel M. Derbis
Correlated quantum photon states generated by vacuum fields, Yuri Rostovtsev, Jacob Emerick, and Anil K. Patnaik
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.
Analysis of Starfire Optical Range’s Atmospheric Monitoring Methods Using WaveProp Simulation and Numerical Modeling, Julianna Sommer, Santasri Basu, Jack E. McCrae, and Steven T. Fiorino
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
Effect of explicit residual filtering on the stability of finite difference methods, Scott W. Theuerkauf and Joseph C. Oefelein
Film Cooling Applied to a Rotating Detonation Engine, Alex R. Thordson, Marc D. Polanka, Mauro Tagliaferri, and Matthew Longer
Impact of stochastic travel times on the military port selection problem, William M. Titus, Brian J. Lunday, and Jesse G. Wales
Comparison of Methods for Wavelength Determination from Laser Speckle Patterns, Joseph Tompkins, Aaron J. Bonner, and Stephen C. Cain
Assessment of Visibility from Nano- and Micro- Aerosol Particle Concentration, Halley Turner, Steven T. Fiorino, Kevin Keefer, Kyle Fitch, and Jaclyn Schmidt
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
Rapid-Response Reconnaissance Architecture Design for Planetary Defense with Nested Trajectory Optimization, Adam P. Wilmer, Justin A. Atchison, Marcus J. Holzinger, and Robert A. Bettinger