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NASTRAN is a finite element analysis program that was originally developed for NASA in the late 1960s under U.S. government funding for the aerospace industry. The software suite provides engineers a comprehensive simulation solution for insight into structural behavior. NASTRAN source code is integrated in a number of different software packages, which are distributed by a range of companies.

This software is a flight dynamics simulation of a transport aircraft. It implements general rigid body equations of motion for the vehicle dynamics and draws aerodynamic forces from a standard coefficient expansion implemented as table lookups. Dynamics of actuator servos and bandwidth of sensors are also included. The simulation is coded in Simulink, a model-based environment using a commercial simulation package from Mathworks, Inc. The software is not stand-alone; it must be run from inside this commercial environment, making use of numerical libraries for basic operations as well as the overall time-stepping and numerical integration routines.

Kodiak is a software implementation of an algorithm for verifying expressions involving nonlinear real arithmetic. It includes an optimizer for nonlinear real functions, a solver for nonlinear inequalities, and an application programming interface (API) for integrating other software verification tools.

The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) has long recognized a need for data processing infrastructure to support Earth science objectives in developing countries. Forest preservation initiatives, carbon measurement initiatives, water management and agricultural monitoring are just few examples of causes that can benefit greatly from remote sensing data. Currently, however, many developing nations lack the in-country expertise and computational infrastructure to utilize remote sensing data. The CEOS Data Cube Platform provides a flexible model to address these needs. The CEOS Data Cube Platform is a data processing platform for Earth science data, with a focus on remote-sensing data. The platform provides a data ingestion framework that includes support for automated ingestion of a wide variety of remote sensing data products. The data products are ingested into an N-dimensional data array that abstracts away management of distinct acquisitions. The platform has a tiered API for data processing and a data/application platform layer for higher-level access.

BL2D: An efficient and fourth-order accurate method to compute two-dimensional and axisymmetric boundary layers on aerospace vehicle wings from low-speed to hypersonic speeds. Aerospace applications include boundary-layer stability analysis, transonic wing design, laminar flow wing design.

Extreme heat causes and exacerbates a number of health problems, leading to hospitalization and death in some cases. The problem of severe heat is notably felt in Maricopa County, Arizona, where the socially disadvantaged and physically vulnerable are especially susceptible to the effects of extreme heat. Several organizations, including the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Phoenix Heat Relief Network, are working to create more effectively placed cooling centers and heat warning systems to aid those with the highest risk of exposure. This project created a Python tool using Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) land surface temperature parameters to generate heat maps that reference demographics data on extreme heat days.

CFL3D is a structured-grid, cell-centered, upwind-biased, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) code. It can be run in parallel on multiple grid zones with point-matched, patched, overset, or embedded connectivities. Both multigrid and mesh sequencing are available in time-accurate or steady-state modes.

Kodiak is a software implementation of a branch-and-bound algorithm for rigorous approximations of expressions involving nonlinear real arithmetic. It includes an optimizer for nonlinear real functions, a solver for nonlinear inequalities, and an Application Programming Interface (API) to integrate directly with other software verification tools. Kodiak's Boolean Checker Software Module is an implementation of a general mixed boolean/real expression checker that is integrated into Kodiak's global optimization solver.

This is a technique for converting a constrained optimization problem into an unconstrained problem. The technique transforms one or more objective functions into reduced objective functions analogous to goal constraints used in the goal programming method. The reduced objective functions are appended to the set of constraints and an envelope of the entire function set is computed using the Kreisselmeier-Steinhauser function. This envelope function is then searched for an unconstrained minimum. The technique may be categorized as a SUMT algorithm. Version 3.1 is written in the FORTRAN 90/95 standard and improves upon the robustness of the code by preventing potential memory allocation errors.