Ruth's home page

What I've worked on:

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• TFAWS 03
• Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey
• Mars Sample Return Earth Entry Vehicle
• Hyper-X
• Materials In Devices As Superconductors (MIDAS)-- Web site no longer active
• JSC Shuttle Workforce Review Team (part of the infamous Zero-base)
• SUNLITE / VESLLS
• ICESTAR / HYDROSTAR / STAR
• TQM Rollout Team -- Web site no longer active
• Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR)
• Design Review Action Team -- rewrote LMI 7120 and LHB 7120
• TOPS (93 and 95)
• Lunar Rover
• previously employed at Martin Marietta (1984-88): worked on Mars Observer, Galileo, CRAF

• Guidelines for Mechanical Design/Analysis
• STAR Analysis
• Guidelines for Project Technical Managers (LaRC only)

• Structural and Thermal Systems Branch
• Flight Systems, Systems Engineering Directorate

I have several papers out on: NASA Technical Report Server - Langley portal or NASA Technical Report Server Search:

• Ruth M. Amundsen, John A.Dec, Joe F.Gasbarre, Thermal Model Correlation for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, 37th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Chicago, IL, July 9-13, 2007.
• Gough, Kerry M.; Allen, B. Danette; Amundsen, Ruth M., Collaborative Mission Design at NASA Langley Research Center, 1st Annual Space Systems Engineering Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2005.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, Joe F.Gasbarre, John A.Dec, Thermal Analysis Methods for Aerobraking Heating, 16th Thermal & Fluid Analysis Workshop (TFAWS 05), Orlando, Florida, August 8 - August 12, 2005.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, Walt Bruce and Charles Leonard, Hyper-X Hot Structures Comparison of Thermal Analysis and Flight Data, 15th Thermal & Fluid Analysis Workshop (TFAWS 04), Pasadena, California, August 30 - September 3, 2004.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, John Dec and Ben George, Aeroheating Thermal Analysis Methods for Aerobraking Mars Missions, 14th Thermal & Fluid Analysis Workshop (TFAWS 03), Hampton, Virginia, August 18-22, 2003.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, John Dec and Ben George, Aeroheating Thermal Model Correlation for Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Solar Array, 36th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 23-26, 2003.
• John A. Dec and Ruth M. Amundsen, A Thermal Analysis Approach for the Mars Odyssey Spacecraft's Solar Array, 36th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 23-26, 2003.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, John Dec and Michael Lindell, Thermal Analysis Methods for an Earth Entry Vehicle, Eleventh Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS 2000), Cleveland, Ohio, August 21-25, 2000.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, John Dec, Robert Mitcheltree, Michael Lindell and Robert Dillman, Preliminary Thermal Analysis of a Mars Earth Entry Vehicle, 34th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 19-22, 2000.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, Method Improvements in Thermal Analysis of Mach 10 Leading Edges, Tenth Conference, Workshop and Product Presentation on Thermal and Fluids Analysis Tools and Methods, Huntsville, Alabama, September 13-16, 1999.
• Ruth M. Amundsen, Comparison of Integrated Analysis Methods for Two Model Scenarios, Ninth Conference, Workshop and Product Presentation on Thermal and Fluids Analysis Tools and Methods, Cleveland, Ohio, August 31--September 4, 1998.
• R. M. Amundsen, J. C. Hickman, P. Hopson, Jr., E. H. Kist, J. M. Marlowe, E. Siman-Tov, C. P. Turner, C. J. Tyler, J. E. Wells, S. A. Wise, R. Dickson and M. W. Hooker, Development of the Materials in Devices as Superconductors (MIDAS) Experiment, NASA/TM-1998-208440, May 1998, pp. 60.
• Ruth M. Amundsen and Drew J. Hope, Hydrostar Thermal and Structural Deformation Analyses of Antenna Array Concept, NASA/TM-1998-206288, February 1998.
• Ruth McElroy Amundsen, Thermal Design and Analysis for the Cryogenic MIDAS Experiment, paper 97ES-29, 27th International Conference on Environmental Systems (SAE), July 14-17, 1997, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
  
• R. M. Amundsen, W. S. Feldhaus, A. D. Little and M. V. Mitchum, Integration of Design, Structural, Thermal and Optical Analysis and User's Guide for Structural-to-Optical Translator (PATCOD), NASA TM-110153, March, 1995, pp. 22.
  
• Ruth M. Amundsen, Some Useful Innovations with TRASYS and SINDA-85, Fifth Annual Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 16-20, 1993.
  

• Correlation of Thermal Model with Hyper-X Leading Edge Material Testing, R. M. Amundsen and M. B. Brzowski, 25th Annual Conference on Composites, Materials and Structures, January 22-25, 2001, Cocoa Beach, Florida.
• Thermal Analysis of the Hyper-X Research Vehicle Wing: Mach 7 Design, R. M. Amundsen, A. O. Torres and C. P. Leonard, 1997 Joint Army NAVY NASA Air Force (JANNAF), CS / PSHS / APS Joint Meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Some presentations:

• Paper presented at TFAWS 2000 on MSR EEV (PDF format)
• FEMCI presentation on Nonlinear Thermal and Structural Analysis of Hypersonic Vehicle Hot Structures co-author with Mike Lindell, at NASA Workshop on Innovative Finite Element Solutions to Challenging Problems, NASA GSFC, May 18, 2000 (Published as Web presentations only)
• Paper presented at TFAWS 99 on improvements in hypersonic thermal analysis (PDF format)
• Paper presented at TFAWS 98 on analysis scenario comparison
• September Langley Tech Forum Presentation on Integrated Design/Analysis/Fab (9/97)
• SAE ICES conference paper on MIDAS thermal analysis (7/97)
• Presentation to Tenneco on Integrated Design and Analysis (7/97)
• High Tech Breakfast (9/96)

Miscellaneous Notes

• Hints for making a video electronically (very old data)
• Very minor notes on pattern substitions in vi, moving files in UNIX, editing files by column, and simple vi commands
• Macintosh file sharing notes (very old data)
• Cryogenic adhesives information
• Materials databases, thermal software, and reflectometer information (very old data)

AMUNDSEN, RUTH M 
Ruth.M.Amundsen@nasa.gov
Structural and Thermal Systems Branch
Systems Engineering Directorate
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA  23681-2199
Phone 757 864-7044
Fax 757 864-7879

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