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Environmental and economic assessment of microalgae-derived jet fuel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Significant efforts must be undertaken to quantitatively assess various alternative jet fuel pathways when working towards achieving environmental and economic United States commercial and military alternative aviation ...
Extending safety assessment methods for remotely piloted aircraft operations in the national airspace system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Remotely Piloted Aircraft operations are growing rapidly in the United States specifically for the Department of Defense to achieve training needs. To ensure the safety of the National Airspace System is maintained to a ...
Design and implementation of small satellite inspection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
For a variety of missions, vision-based navigation and similar architectures provide the advantage of detailed measurements for a fraction of the size and complexity of ground-based imagers. This thesis provides a simple ...
Design and development of a high-altitude, in-flight-deployable micro-UAV
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
A micro-UAV ([mu] UAV) system was developed to provide maximum endurance for a small atmospheric sensing payload. The system, composed of a ([mu] UAV) and protective case, folds and fits into a MJU-10/B flare cartridge ...
Air flow effects in the piston ring pack and their implications on oil transport
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
3 different flow regimes of piston blowby air and their influences on oil transport are studied. It is found that air mainly interacts with oil close to the ring gaps and directly below the ring-liner contacts. Geometric ...
A computerized algebraic utility for the construction of nonsingular satellite theories.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
Benefit-cost assessment of aviation environmental policies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis aids in the development of a framework in which to conduct global benefit-cost assessments of aviation policies. Current policy analysis tools, such as the aviation environmental portfolio management tool (APMT), ...
A perturbation model for normal and sickle cell blood microcirculation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder that alters red blood cells such that their hemoglobin cannot effectively bind and release oxygen. This causes issues that affect how the cell operates in the smallest vessels of ...
Wave propagation in a turbulent medium : second order effects.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
A program risk assessment method for aviation technology transitions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This work presents a method for assessing the potential impacts of program risks on aviation technology transitions. It first establishes a framework that provides a methodology to complete the assessment of those risks. ...