The I-24 Smart Corridor project, launched by TDOT since 2018, is a first-ever Smart Corridor study in Tennessee. This project integrates I-24 and SR-1, a parallel arterial roadway, with physical, technological, and operational enhancements to provide road users with accurate, real-time information and actively manage traffic. The I-24 project is co
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The ability to predict the vapor pressure and vapor-phase composition of hydrocarbon mixtures (such as jet fuel, sustainable aviation fuel or its un-refined precursors) and partially vaporized hydrocarbon mixtures is important to simulations of processes that involve vaporization such as distillations, flash points, combustion properties of partial
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Given the high level of uncertainty prevalent in the immature biofuels industry, the primary objective of this study was to identify and assess the risk factors that biofuel firms face. The study evaluated the risk factors, or specific risks, reported by biofuel firms to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over five years. The analysi
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Noise certification procedures (with their inclusion of equivalent procedures) have served aviation stakeholders (i.e., original equipment manufacturers [OEM], regulators, operators, airports, etc.) well since the 1960s. With new vehicle types and new technologies (including new entrants, digital technologies for airframes, propulsion, and measurem
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This project aimed to establish a new multiscale framework for predicting soot formation in both canonical and practically relevant sooting flames. A hierarchy of first-principles simulation methods was employed to capture the multiscale physics governing the formation and transport of non-volatile particulate matter (nvPM, commonly referred to as
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This report documents a comprehensive Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) conducted by The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development (CAASD) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Human Factors Division (ANG-C1). The primary objective was to analyze key air traffic workforce positions at Air Route Traffic Control Centers
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Aircraft design is a multidisciplinary field that spans aerodynamics, structures, thermodynamics and propulsion. Prior approaches to this problem have consisted of historical correlations, empirical drag and simplified propulsion system models (Raymer, 2018; Roskam, 2002; Torenbeek, 1982). TASOPT, originally written in FORTRAN and developed by Mark
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Resilient pavement infrastructure is a dream of every transportation agency. Many factors affect the health of pavement infrastructure to include extreme climate shifts. This study evaluated the effects of climate shifts to pavement infrastructure in Tennessee. The study used AASHTOWare PMED software to predict distresses on selected pavement secti
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This study investigates the ignition behavior of six dimethylcyclohexane (DMCH) isomers and cis-/trans-decalin, focusing on the effects of molecular geometry and substitution patterns. Ignition delay and derived cetane number (DCN) were measured using a CFR ignition quality tester under ASTM D6890 conditions. Among the DMCH isomers, cis-1,3-DMCH ex
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The goal of this research is to increase the accuracy of AEDT noise and emissions modeling of aircraft not currently in the ANP database. Georgia Tech will identify, and review aircraft not currently modeled in the AEDT, and will collect information and necessary data to better understand the characteristics of these aircraft. Various statistical a
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Multirotor electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and small unmanned aircraft systems commonly use distributed electric propulsion. One approach to reducing their noise involves synchronizing rotor phase relationships to control radiated noise directionally. This paper presents a practical electronic phase synchronization method for multir
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment
2025-09-01
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This report covers the period October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. The Center was established by the authority of FAA solicitation 13-C-AJFE-Solicitation. The ASCENT website can be viewed at ascent.aero. The next meeting will be held during the months of April, May, and June 2025.
Accurate preliminary cost estimates for resurfacing projects are essential to conduct a reliable Maintenance & Rehabilitation (M&R) analysis, prioritize projects, and optimize the use of available budget. However, TDOT is currently using an outdated cost per lane mile data for such analysis, and hence the results of such analysis can be less reliab
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A comprehensive uncertainty quantification (UQ) of soot volume fraction (SVF) predictions in the primary zone of a Rich-Quench-Lean (RQL) combustor is presented, with particular emphasis on the modeling uncertainties in the rates of nucleation, growth, oxidation, condensation, and coagulation. Large-eddy simulations (LES) of soot formation in a rea
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The exploration of novel acoustic liner designs using 3D internal lattices has become a growing topic of interest within the field of additive manufacturing (AM). However, the comparison between the acoustic liner response of computational simulation and experimental testing tends to show significant deviation. A potential cause of this deviation i
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Acoustic liners are integral to the noise management of aircraft engines. As such, acoustic liner designs and configurations are the subject of research and development to address the acoustic requirements of novel engine layouts. Perforate sheet over honeycomb core, or single degree of freedom (SDOF), liners are the traditional system that has bee
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The goal of this project has been to develop a document providing guidance on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) technologies within information automation in FAA systems to support safety critical operations for air traffic control, traffic flow management and technical operations (maintenance). In this document
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Food waste is an underdeveloped source for production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Now, there is no certified conversion process of food waste for SAF by American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). We report the use of zeolite-supported molybdenum carbide nanocatalysts in upgrading biocrudes, produced from food wastes through HTL, int
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The jet from a model-scale, internally mixed nozzle produced a loud howling when operated at jet Mach numbers between 0.80 and 1.00. Discrete tones dominated the noise radiated to the far field and powerful oscillations were present in the jet. To explain these observations, this paper leverages a blend of experimental acoustic and flow measurement
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The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control organization (ATO) encompasses a variety of facilities that include towers, terminal radar approach control facilities (TRACONs), and air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs). Air traffic controllers use alarms, alerts, and warnings (collectively, signals) as an aid to situation awareness
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