Report
Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facilities: Supporting Analyses to an Assessment of NASA’s Capabilities to Serve National Needs
Provides detailed analyses of the nation’s aeronautic testing needs and the effectiveness of, and management issues for, NASA’s major wind tunnel and test propulsion facilities in serving those needs.
Nov 16, 2004
Report
Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facilities: An Assessment of NASA’s Capabilities to Serve National Needs
Analyzes the nation’s aeronautic testing needs and the effectiveness of, and management issues for, NASA’s major wind tunnel and test propulsion facilities in serving those needs.
Nov 16, 2004
Research Brief
Do NASA's Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facilities Serve National Needs?
This research shows that NASA needs to develop an aeronautics test technology vision and plan, analyze the viability of a national test facility plan, identify and maintain its minimum set of facilities, and identify shared financial support to keep its underutilized but essential facilities from entering financial collapse.
2004
Report
Ground Forces for a Rapidly Employable Joint Task Force: First-Week Capabilities for Short-Warning Conflicts
This monograph is a "think piece" about rapidly deployable future ground forces that would be used in time-urgent joint-task-force missions.
2000
Research Brief
Intervening in Short-Warning Conflicts: The Role of a Rapidly Employable Joint Force
Analysis suggests that a first, provisional version of such a capability could be achieved in the near to mid term by "zero basing" (i.e., rethinking from first principles the use of existing airlift and ship-based prepositioning).
2000
Report
Enhancing Weapon System Analysis: Issues and Procedures for Integrating a Research and Development Simulator with a Distributed Simulation Network
The Department of Defense weapon system development and acquisition process requires that an operational effectiveness analysis be provided at every major decision point.
1994
Research Brief
The Fly on the Wall and the Jedi Knight
To identify leading-edge technologies that could revolutionize military operations, to develop concepts of military systems that could transform warfare, and to specify the research necessary to make these systems a reality.
1994
Report
Future Technology-Driven Revolutions in Military Operations: Results of a Workshop
Which technologies show enough promise to warrant greater U.S. defense R&D investment at this time? RAND hosted two workshops to address this question.
1994
Report
RAND's Concept Analysis Environment: A Briefing
To assist Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in this effort, RAND has established the Concept Analysis Environment (CAE), a secure set of systems for the analysis, exploration, and evaluation of advanced military concepts.
1990
Report
R&D approaches to breeder development and commercialization
The government research and development (R&D) process that leads to the commercialization of advanced technologies in the private sector can be described in terms of three main stages: basic research, pilot plant or field tests, and demonstration pro...
1985
Report
Projected Engineering Cost Estimates for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Central Station
This Note summarizes an investigation into the potential cost reductions that might be achieved if certain engineering, construction, and financial improvements were realized in the OTEC concept.
1982
Report
A Quantitative Evaluation of Closed-Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Technology in Central Station Applications
A quantitative evaluation methodology to study the cost sensitivities and engineering uncertainties of advanced energy conversion systems.
1980
Report
Quantitative Evaluation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC): Executive Briefing
Documentation of a briefing summarizing the results of an independent quantitative evaluation by The RAND Corporation of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) for central station applications.
1980
Report
Feasibility of a Special-Purpose Computer To Solve the Navier-Stokes Equations
This report summarizes the results of a two-day workshop at The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, March 9-10, 1977, where participants discussed the feasibility of developing a special-purpose computer to solve the Navier-Stokes equations.
1977
Report
A Methodology for Comparing the Range Performance of Chemically Fueled Submersibles
Presents a simple, general method for readily comparing the performances of chemically powered submersibles.
1976
Report
Some Characteristics of Radioisotope Power Sources in an Ocean Environment.
Results of this study show that lightweight radioisotope heat sources can be considered for use undersea with little shielding necessary for electronics packages in close proximity to the heat source. Acceptable integrated electronic dose levels of ...
1974
Report
The Application of Numerical Simulation Models in the Assessment of the Effect of Discharges into Coastal Waters
Describes the RAND water quality simulation model (RM-6230, R-708, R-709, R-1009, R-1010) and suggests its use to determine how the discharges from an offshore or coastal nuclear plant would affect the ecology of the receiving waters.
1973
Report
Exploration of the Performance of Multiphase Nuclear-Fuel Cavity Reactors for Power Generation
Explores the feasibility of nuclear-fuel cavity reactors for the generation of electric power.
1972
Report
The Use of Water-Quality Simulation Models in the Analysis of the Thermal Effects Problem
Description of RAND's water-quality simulation model and a heat transport model that has been incorporated into it in order to determine the effect of thermal discharge on aquatic ecosystems, an important issue in the increased construction of U.S....
1972
Report
A Water-Quality Simulation Model for Well Mixed Estuaries and Coastal Seas: Vol. V, Jamaica Bay Rainstorms
A simulation measuring the effects of stormdrain flooding on the water quality of Jamaica Bay, N.Y. Sewage entering Jamaica Bay in dry weather is treated, but storm runoff can overtax treatment plants, whereupon untreated water enters the bay.
1972
Report
Multiphase Nuclear Fuel Cavity Reactors for Power Generation
The characteristics and problems of cavity reactors with the fuel in the solid, solid/liquid, solid/liquid/gas, liquid, and liquid/gas states are explored analytically in an effort to uncover interesting operational regimes.
1971
Report
A Water-Quality Simulation Model for Well Mixed Estuaries and Coastal Seas: Vol. III, Jamaica Bay Simulation
Description of experiments made to adjust the tidal flow in the water-quality model of Jamaica Bay, Long Island, New York, outlined in Vols. I and II.
1971
Report
A Water-Quality Simulation Model for Well Mixed Estuaries and Coastal Seas: Vol. II, Computation Procedures
A water-quality model developed in RM-6230 is extended to include the transport of several waste constituents and a reaction model that simulates the biological and chemical interactions among these constituents in coastal waters.
1971
Report
Exact Solution of the Radiation Heat Transport Equation in a Gas-Filled Spherical Cavity
This memorandum treats the case of steady-state, radiative heat transport through an absorbing, emitting, and heat-generating gray gas contained inside a black-wall spherical cavity.
1970
Report
Exact Solution to the Radiative Transport Equation for the Gaseous-Core Cavity Reactor.
This work develops analytical solutions that converge rapidly for all optical thicknesses. For the case of an optically thick medium, such as the gaseous-fuel in a cavity reactor, solutions are found in a closed form. Consideration is given to the p...
1969
Report
Radiation Heat Transport in Gaseous-fueled Cavity Reactors.
A general and tractable method is developed for calculating the pressure, density, and temperature distributions within a gaseous-core nuclear reactor by solving the appropriate radiation heat transfer equation. Numerical results are presented for t...
1968
Report
Energy-Dependent Neutron Transport Theory Near a Temperature Discontinuity.
An exact solution is obtained for the energy-dependent Boltzmann transport equation for thermal neutrons near a temperature discontinuity. The medium is nonabsorbing and infinite. The method of solution consists of expanding the energy-transfer ker...
1967