Path: AerospaceUtils/AtmosphericCalculations
% Computes the atmospheric density using an exponential model.
If planet is not entered the default is earth. It has coefficients for all of
the planets and Europa. You can enter [] for h. If you just enter the planet,
it will create a range of h.
The Earth model has an additional scaling coefficient in the exponent. The
Neptune and Titan models are curve fits.
Type AtmDens1 for demo.
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Form:
rho = AtmDens1( planet )
rho = AtmDens1( h, planet )
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Inputs
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h (1,:) Altitude (km)
planet (1,:) 'earth', 'mercury', 'venus', 'mars',
'jupiter', 'europa', 'saturn', 'titan', 'uranus',
'neptune', 'pluto'
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Outputs
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rho (1,:) Atmospheric Density kg/m^3
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Reference: Lang, K. R., "Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars",
Springer-Verlag, p 50.
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AerospaceUtils: AtmosphericCalculations/AtmDensTitan AerospaceUtils: AtmosphericCalculations/NeptuneDensity SC: Environs/MolWt2R Common: CommonData/SwooshWatermark Common: General/CellToMat Common: General/DeBlankLT Common: General/MatToCell Common: General/Watermark Common: Graphics/NewFig Common: Graphics/Plot2D Common: Graphics/PlotDoubleYAxis Common: Graphics/PltStyle Common: Graphics/TitleS Common: Graphics/XLabelS Common: Graphics/YLabelS
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