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Spotlight on TIS Tool Thermal Insulation System Analysis Tool The Thermal Insulation System Analysis Tool (TISTool) was developed starting in 2004 by Jonathan Demko and James Fesmire. The first edition was written in Excel and Visual Basic as macros. It included the basic shapes such as a flat plate, cylinder, dished head, and sphere. The data was from several KSC tests that were already in the public literature realm as well as data from NIST and other highly respectable sources. ... Read more...

Newly Hosted Applications STARS Multidisciplinary Finite Element Computer Program for Analysis of Engineering Systems STARS is a multidisciplinary, finite element-based, graphics oriented, linear and nonlinear analysis tool. Its range of application includes structural analysis, heat transfer, linear aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as well as coupled linear and CFD-based aeroelastic, aeroacoustics, aerothermoelastic-acoustics, and aeroservoelastic analysis. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS Static Stability Vibration Dynamic response (transient, harmonic, random, seismic) General... Read more... Hosting discipline: Finite Element Analysis TIS Tool Thermal Insulation System Analysis Tool The Thermal Insulation System Analysis Tool (TISTool) was developed starting in 2004 by Jonathan Demko and James Fesmire. The first edition was written in Excel and Visual Basic as macros. It included the basic shapes such as a flat plate, cylinder, dished head, and sphere. The data... Read more... Hosting discipline: Thermal Tools VicarPdsIO VICAR and PDS Image I/O package for Java This package contains Java code to read and write VICAR and PDS image files, and read ISIS image files. It is a software library intended for use with applications rather than a standalone package, but a SimpleConvert program exists as a test/demo. Formats Supported There are 3 different methods of... Read more... Hosting discipline: Visualization and Virtual Reality ION Interplanetary Overlay Network The Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) software distribution is an implementation of Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture as described in Internet RFC 4838. It is designed to enable inexpensive insertion of DTN functionality into embedded systems such as robotic spacecraft. The intent of ION deployment in space flight mission systems... Read more... Hosting discipline: Networking Applications Pomegranate Webification services for science data files Pomegranate is a python application that webifies science data files. Supported formats include netcdf, hdf4, hdf5, grib and fits. It can be installed on web servers as either WSGI or CGI applications to provide webification (w10n) services. To learn more about w10n spec, please visit http://webification.org. Pomegranate can also be... Read more... Hosting discipline: Internet Applications