Atmosphere Example#

This example demonstrates how to use flight-mech to compute the properties of an atmosphere.

Imports#

[1]:

# Python imports
import os
import sys
sys.path.append("..")

# Flight-Mech imports
from flight_mech.atmosphere import StandardAtmosphere

Standard Atmosphere#

Flight-Mech implements the US Standard atmosphere model from 1976. Let us use it to plot the temperature and pressure graphs in the atmosphere.

[2]:

# Create an atmosphere instance
atmosphere = StandardAtmosphere()

# Plot the temperature graph
atmosphere.plot_graph("temperature",min_altitude=0.,max_altitude=86e3,nb_points=200)

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Let us now plot the pressure graph.

[5]:

# Plot the pressure graph
atmosphere.plot_graph("pressure",min_altitude=0.,max_altitude=86e3,nb_points=2000)

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