2014 Seedling Seminar | NASA Aeronautics Research Institute

NASA Aeronautics presented a 6-day virtual technical seminar on February 19–21 and February 25–27, 2014 to showcase innovative concepts developed by NASA researchers, primarily featuring work from the 2012 Seedling Phase II and 2013 Seedling Phase I funds. If you'd like to download a pdf copy of the agenda, click here.

NASA Aeronautics awards the ARMD Seedling Fund grants to make deliberate investments in early-stage and potentially revolutionary aviation concepts and technologies that are aligned with NASA's mission. These grants go to civil servant-led teams at NASA Research Centers. This seminar was an opportunity for members of the NASA aeronautics community to view the results of this research and see how these innovative concepts might complement and benefit their work and projects across the agency. The results were presented in 33 talks: 30 minutes for each presentation and 10 minutes for discussion and questions. Each session featured a special guest NASA leader as Keynote Speaker and Moderator.

The seminar was free and open to all. Watch the archive and download the slides below.

Materials Session
Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Phase	Discipline	Recorded Presentation	Slides
Jim Heidmann	NASA Glenn Research Center	Session Welcome and Keynote			View	Download PDF
Carlos I. Calle	NASA Kennedy Space Center	Graphene Based Ultra-Light Batteries for Aircraft	I	Materials	View	Download PDF Leftover questions
John W. Connell	NASA Langley Research Center	Novel Bonding Methodologies Toward the Attainment of Primary Bonded Aircraft Structure	II	Materials, Structures	View	Download PDF
Steve Wilkinson (for Emilie J. Siochi)	NASA Langley Research Center	Design and Evaluation of Enhanced Dielectric-Barrier-Discharge Actuators	II	Materials	View	Download PDF
Edward H. Glaessgen	NASA Langley Research Center	Deformation and Damage in Structurally Graded Nano-Crystalline Aluminum Alloys	II	Materials, Safety	View	Download PDF
Jon Goldsby	NASA Glenn Research Center	High Temperature Magnetic Material with Temperature Capability Greater Than 500 C	I	Materials	View	Download PDF
Glen S. Bigelow	NASA Glenn Research Center	Single Crystal High-Temperature Shape Memory Alloys	II	Materials	View	Download PDF
Sai V. Raj	NASA Glenn Research Center	Development of Engineered Ceramic Matrix Composites	II	Materials	View	Download PDF
Janet Hurst	NASA Glenn Research Center	Aligned Boron Nitride Nanotube Forests for Thermal Management	I	Materials	View	Download PDF
Robert Okojie	NASA Glenn Research Center	Concept Demonstration of Dopant Selective Reactive Etching in Silicon Carbide	I	Propulsion	View	Download PDF
Mary Ann Meador	NASA Glenn Research Center	Design and Development of Aerogel-Based Antennas for Aerospace Applications	II	Materials	View	Download PDF
Aerodynamics and Control
Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Phase	Discipline	Recorded Presentation	Slides
Starr Ginn	NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center	Session Welcome and Keynote			View	N/A
Michael Logan	NASA Langley Research Center	Compound Wing Long Endurance V/TOL	I	Aero/Structure Integration	View	Download PDF
Frank H. Gern	NASA Langley Research Center	Artificial Intelligence Based Control Power Optimization on Tailless Aircraft	I	Guidance & Control	View	Download PDF
Jay M. Brandon	NASA Langley Research Center	Real-Time Onboard Global Nonlinear Aerodynamic Modeling from Flight Data	II	Aerodynamics	View	Download PDF
Martin J. Brenner	NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center	Controller Performance Evaluation of Fly-by-Feel Technology	II	Aerodynamics	View	Download PDF
Martin J. Brenner	NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center	Physics-Based Stability and Control Derivative Measurement	I	Aerodynamics	View	Download PDF
Bruce Cogan	NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center	Flight validation of cruise efficient, low noise, extreme short takeoff and landing (CESTOL) and circulation control (CC) for drag reduction enabling technologies	I	Aerodynamics	View	Download PDF
Aircraft Design
Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Phase	Discipline	Recorded Presentation	Slides
Fay Collier	NASA Langley Research Center	Session Welcome and Keynote			View	Download PDF
Doug Wells	NASA Langley Research Center	Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Aircraft	I	Propulsion Airframe Integration	View	Download PDF
Kevin W. Reynolds	NASA Ames Research Center	Wing Shaping Concepts Using Distributed Propulsion Control For Achieving Optimal Spanwise L/D To Reduce Fuel Burn	I	Aerodynamics	View	Download PDF
Larry A. Young	NASA Ames Research Center	Combined Electric Aircraft and Airspace Management Design for Metro-Regional Public Transportation	II	Air Traffic Management	View	Download PDF Leftover questions Movie Animation
Air Traffic
Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Phase	Discipline	Recorded Presentation	Slides
Barry Sullivan	NASA Ames Research Center	Session Welcome and Keynote			View	Download PDF
Michelle Eshow (for Bimal L. Aponso)	NASA Ames Research Center	Transforming the NextGen Test Environment: Integrating Fused ADS-B Surveillance Data	I	Air Traffic Management	View	Download PDF
David E. Smith	NASA Ames Research Center	Intelligent UAS Sense-and-Avoid utilizing Global Constraints	I	Guidance & Control	View	Download PDF Leftover questions
Todd Lauderdale	NASA Ames Research Center	Using Historical Data to Automatically Identify Air-Traffic Controller Behavior	I	Air Traffic Management	View	Download PDF
Nikunj Oza	NASA Ames Research Center	Reducing the Environmental Impact of Aviation: A Data Mining Approach to Instantaneous Estimation of Fuel Consumption	II	Data Mining, Air Traffic Management	View	Download PDF
Measurement Technology and Testing
Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Phase	Discipline	Recorded Presentation	Slides
Michael Mastaler	NASA Langley Research Center	Session Welcome and Keynote			View	Download PDF
Eric Madaras	NASA Langley Research Center	Investigation of the Magneto-Acoustic Villari Effect for Measuring the Internal Stress in Composites	I	Testing	View	Download PDF
Jacob D. Hochhalter	NASA Langley Research Center	Coupling Damage-sensing Particles and Computational Micromechanics to enable the Digital Twin concept	I	Structures, Materials	View	Download PDF
Eric Burke	NASA Langley Research Center	Scintillating Quantum Dots for Imaging X-rays (SQDIX) for Aircraft Inspection	I	Measurement Technology	View	N/A
Jeffrey I. Eldridge	NASA Glenn Research Center	Luminescence-Based Temperature Mapping at Turbine Engine Temperatures Using Breakthrough Cr-Doped GdAlO3	II	Measurement Technology	View	Download PDF
William Clifton Horne, Nathan Burnside (Co-PI)	NASA Ames Research Center	Innovative, Low-cost Phased Microphone Array Design for Moderate-Scale Aeroacoustics tests	I	Aeroacoustics	View	Download PDF
Susan Frost	NASA Ames Research Center	Bio-mimetic Optical Sensor for Real-time Measurement of Aircraft Wing Deflection	I	Measurement Technology	View	Download PDF
Paul M. Danehy	NASA Langley Research Center	Fluorescence–Doped Particles for Simultaneous Temperature and Velocity Imaging	II	Measurement Technology	View	Download PDF
Propulsion
Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Phase	Discipline	Recorded Presentation	Slides
Rubén Del Rosario	NASA Glenn Research Center	Session Welcome and Keynote			View	Download PDF
John 'Dave' Saunders	NASA Glenn Research Center	Liquefied Bleed	I	Propulsion	View	Download PDF
Vikram Shyam	NASA Glenn Research Center	Holistic concepts for Aeropropulsion	I	Propulsion	View	Download PDF Leftover questions
Vikram Shyam	NASA Glenn Research Center	Real-Time Closed-Loop Modulated Turbine Cooling	I	Propulsion	View	Download PDF Leftover questions