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Submissions from 2026
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
Experimental determination of S , D , F , and G energy levels in rubidium, Timothy M. true, Dillon T. Nice, Jordan C. Mindrup, Christopher A. Rice, and Glen P. Perram
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
Preliminary investigation of 6DOF reentry reachability for a cylindrical reentry vehicle, Emma L. Webb, Robert A. Bettinger, and Kerry D. Hicks
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
Designing Space-Based Architectures to Discover and Track Hazardous Asteroids Using MO-MCTS, Adam P. Wilmer, Michael J. Klonowski, Marcus J. Holzinger, and Robert A. Bettinger
Proposed Methodology for Correcting Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Field-of-View Scene-Change Artifacts, Kody A. Wilson, Michael L. Dexter, Benjamin F. Akers, and Anthony L. Franz
Nuclear physics of X-ray bursts, Y. Xu, H. Schatz, R. Lau, Zachary P. Meisel, and P. Mohr
Submissions from 2025
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters for Roadway Applications, Mohamed AbdelRaheem and Heba M. Gaber
Semiclassical Approach to Computing Vibrationally Resolved Ionization Cross Sections for Molecular Nitrogen, Paul E. Adamson, Darryl J. Watkins, Michael V. Pak, A. Stephen Richardson, Ian M. Rittersdorf, and Stephen B. Swanekamp
Exploring the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) for Low-Level Task Differentiation and Classification, Cristian Agredo, Daniel F. Koranek, Christine M. Schubert, Jose A. Gutierrez del Arroyo, Tor J. Langehaug, and Scott R. Graham
Microarchitectural Malware Detection via Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) Events, Cristian Agredo, Daniel F. Koranek, Christine M. Schubert Kabban, Jose R. Gutierrez del Arroyo, and Scott R. Graham
On Ripples: Bifurcations of resonant bimodal traveling waves, Benjamin F. Akers
Development of a standard maritime C2n model using satellite measurements, Gregory Anderson, Steven T. Fiorino, and David Meier
Performance Evaluation of Utilizing Rust for PCAP Analysis in Satellite Cybersecurity, Samual M. Asher and Douglas D. Hodson
Computational Investigation of Heat Generation and Dissipation in Lithium-Ion Batteries During Multi-Rate Charging, Asonganyi Atayo, T. S. Ravigururajan, and Muhammad Rahman
Structural Index Parameter for Capturing Aerothermal Effects in Conceptual-Level Vehicle Design, Samuel C. Atchison, Ian W. Maynard, and Bernd Chuboda
Structural Index Parameter for Capturing Structural & Aerothermal Effects in Conceptual Level Vehicle Design, Samuel Atchison, Ian Maynard, and Bernd Chudhoa
Quality Insights: Leadership Quality Assessment, Adedeji B. Badiru