CDWave:

Path: ACPro/ACProAerodynamics

% Wave drag using Ackeret theory.

   It uses a logistic function to deal with the drag divergence region.

   Type CDWave for a demo.

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   Form:
   cD = CDWave( m, alpha, t, cDM1 )
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   Inputs
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   m           (1,:)	Freestream Mach number
   alpha       (1,1) Angle of attack (rad) (0 is the default)
   mDD         (1,1) Mach drag divergence  (0.8 is the default)
   t       	  (1,1) Thickness ratio       (0 is the default)
   cDM1        (1,1) Drag at Mach 1        (0.05 is the default)

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   Outputs
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   cD          (1,:) 	Drag coefficient
  
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   Reference: B. W. McCormick, "Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight
              Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, pp. 274-279.
              J. D. Anderson Jr., "Introduction to Flight 3rd Edition",
              McGraw-Hill, 1989, p. 215.
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Children:

Common: CommonData/SwooshWatermark
Common: General/CellToMat
Common: General/MatToCell
Common: General/Watermark
Common: Graphics/NewFig
Common: Graphics/Plot2D
Common: Graphics/PltStyle
Math: Analysis/Logistic

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