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% Evaluates the required solar cell coverage for a particular airship hull geometry, as a function of the required power, the solar cell efficiency, the global irradiance, and the daily fraction of sun-exposure -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form: R = SolarCellCoverage( h, u, S, Cd, P0, Emax, fSun, etaProp, etaCell ); -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Inputs ------ h (1) Altitude [m] u (1) Velocity [m/s] S (1) Reference aera [m^2] Cd (1) Zero-incidence drag coefficient P0 (1) Nominal power required for payload [W] EMax (1) Maximum solar irradiance [W/m^2] fSun (1) Daily fraction of sun exposure etaProp (1,M) Propeller/engine efficiency etaCell (1,N) Solar cell efficiency ------- Outputs ------- R (M,N) Required solar cell coverage ratio: solar cell area / hull surface area --------------------------------------------------------------------------
AerospaceUtils: AeroData/AtmData Common: Atmosphere/StdAtm Common: CommonData/SwooshWatermark Common: General/CellToMat Common: General/MatToCell Common: General/Watermark Common: Graphics/NewFig Common: Graphics/Plot2D Common: Graphics/PltStyle
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