PRIOR ART ACCESS UPDATE v3 — 5 October 2026 The v2 evidence matrix remains valid and is retained. This bounded alternate-access pass acquired no additional full texts. Four specific articles still require an author manuscript or legitimate library access. Novelty is not established. 10.2514/1.4980 No downloadable journal manuscript found. NTRS earlier edition has downloads=[]; not substituted for 2004 paper. Professional author contact and repository coordinator identified privately. Primary records: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/mec_aereng_facwork/3080/ https://sites.mst.edu/davidriggins/ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20020073109 https://library.mst.edu/facultyandstaffdirectory/ 10.2514/2.1616 Institutional record supplies abstract, not manuscript. Professional coauthor contact identified privately. Princeton ILL is not automatically available to unaffiliated readers; own public or corporate library is a lawful alternative. Primary records: https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en/publications/magnetohydrodynamic-control-of-hypersonic-flows-and-scramjet-inle/ https://pcrf.princeton.edu/personnel-landing/personnel/ https://library.princeton.edu/services/interlibrary-loan https://faq.library.princeton.edu/faq/11578 10.2514/1.13736 Crossref points to publisher PDF, not alternative open manuscript. Official NETL bibliography confirms citation but offers no linked article PDF. The 2006 dissertation is related work, not this article. Professional coauthor contact identified privately. Primary records: https://api.crossref.org/works/10.2514/1.13736 https://mae.osu.edu/non-equilibrium-thermodynamics-laboratory-research-programs https://chemphys.osu.edu/people/adamovich.1 10.1016/j.ast.2026.113752 Publisher-linked API returned HTTP 200 but metadata only (1878 bytes, openaccess=0), not full text. Publisher PDF remains inaccessible. Crossref and publisher both identify Richard Lieu; UAH professional contact identified privately. No author preprint found by targeted exact-title search. Primary records: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1270963826021280 https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1016/j.ast.2026.113752 https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S1270963826021280?httpAccept=text/xml https://www.uah.edu/science/departments/physics/faculty-staff/dr-richard-lieu SCIENTIFIC POSITION Earlier cycle studies already include extraction, acceleration efficiency and ionizer loads. Earlier inlet work already couples ionization, current closure and off-design aerodynamics. A dimensionless map alone does not establish novelty; a useful potential contribution is a reproducible synthesis with explicit system boundaries and calibrated evidence. A reduced inlet credit remains conditional, not a validated net-thrust prediction. FINITE REMAINING WORK 1. Send individually addressed author copy requests from the confirmed author account; use an eligible local library document-delivery service as a fallback. 2. On receipt: record edition, provenance and hash; compare equations, objectives, normalization, component definitions and validity bounds with the final reduced model. 3. Complete external scientific review; distinguish a conditional bound on an exergy-equivalent credit from any direct limit on the present kinetic credit c. 4. Resolve requested source symbols against exact source definitions; keep newly defined symbols explicitly local. 5. Establish a contribution beyond accounting reparameterization or present the work as a reproducible methodological evidence note. No inaccessible article is treated as fully reviewed. No access restriction was bypassed. Request/contact drafts are maintained privately, separate from this public evidence update. Parallel source update: the author-uploaded full Shneider2004 journal text was inspected at sections II-IV and Tables1-3. See shneider-validation-v3.txt/json. This improves the previous excerpt-only status, but does not resolve any of the four missing journal texts or validate our scalar model.