Approximate daily fuel consumption for a notional hypersonic airliner

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See also StdAtm, Scimitar, LiftToDragFromMach, FuelFromRange
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%   Copyright (c) 2013 Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc.
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% Define altitude and Mach number
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h = 25400;
m = 5;

% Compute pressure and velocity
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p = StdAtm(h);
v = m*p.speedOfSound;

% Scimitar thrust and specific fuel consumption
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[t, sFC] = Scimitar( v, h );

fprintf(1,'\nSFC %e (kg/N-s)\n',sFC)

% Computes L/D ratio from Mach number
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lOverD = LiftToDragFromMach( m );

% Define vector for range and dry mass
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r      = linspace(12051,15345,33);
mD     = 100000;

% Compute and display daily fuel use
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mF     = FuelFromRange( mD, lOverD, r, v, sFC );
fprintf(1,'\nDaily use of H2 %12.4f MT\n',sum(mF)/1000);

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SFC 1.776160e-05 (kg/N-s)

Daily use of H2     936.1689 MT

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