


VISCAIR: computes viscosity of air vis=VISCAIR(Ta) computes the kinematic viscosity of dry air as a function of air temperature following Andreas (1989), CRREL Report 89-11. INPUT: Ta - air temperature [C] OUTPUT: vis - air viscosity [m^2/s]


0001 function vis=viscair(Ta) 0002 % VISCAIR: computes viscosity of air 0003 % vis=VISCAIR(Ta) computes the kinematic viscosity of dry air as a 0004 % function of air temperature following Andreas (1989), CRREL Report 0005 % 89-11. 0006 % 0007 % INPUT: Ta - air temperature [C] 0008 % 0009 % OUTPUT: vis - air viscosity [m^2/s] 0010 0011 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 0012 % 3/8/97: version 1.0 0013 % 8/5/99: version 2.0 0014 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 0015 0016 vis = 1.326e-5*(1 + 6.542e-3*Ta + 8.301e-6*Ta.^2 - 4.84e-9*Ta.^3); 0017