We have measured the energy efficiency of different memory management strategies on a high performance pocket computer. We conducted our study by measuring the energy consumption of eight C programs with four different memory management strategies each. The memory management strategies are: no deallocation, explicit deallocation, conservative mark-and-sweep garbage collection, and conservative ...

A natural laminar flow airfoil has been developed jointly by NASA's Dryden Flight Research and Langley Research Centers a s a part of the aircraft energy efficiency (ACEE) program. A NASA flight program incorporating this airfoil into partial wing gloves on the F-111 TACT airplane was scheduled to start in May, 1980. In support of this research effort, Boeing has conducted a n extensive boundar...

L-I-V Testing Basic Light intensity-Current-Voltage (L-I-V) testing is an I-V test with the addition of optical power measurements. This test is primarily used to sort laser diodes or weed out bad devices before they become part of an assembly. The device under test (DUT) is subjected to a current sweep while the forward voltage drop is recorded for each step in the sweep. Simultaneously, instr...

Recent developments in formulations for generating swept volumes have made a significant impact on the efficiency of employing such algorithms and on the extent to which formulations can be used in representing complex shapes. In this paper, we outline a method for employing the representation of implicit surfaces using the Jacobian rank deficiency condition presented earlier for the sweep of p...

The goal of this investigation is to study the effect of wing sweep angle on the horizontal wing-body- tail configurations in subsonic flow. For this purpose, a series of wind tunnel tests were conducted on a model having a moveable horizontal tail and a wing planform with different sweep angles. Tests were performed at different tail deflection angles. Static surface pressure distribution over...

The Navy is in need of an organic, inexpensive, swift method to neutralize or sweep waterborne mines. This paper presents an alternative to current mine countermeasure technologies that fulfill this criteria the use of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) to clear a minefield. Our experimental and modeling study strongly suggest high efficiency of the JABS for mine clearance in the very shal...