Uploaded May 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Cosine spacing is used for airfoil coordinate files to cluster more data points towards the leading and trailing edges of the airfoil, where there are higher curvatures or more detail that needs to be resolved. By using this spacing, less data points can be used to more accurately describe the airfoil's shape when used in other simulations such as panel methods or CFD codes, saving valuable computation time.
Cosine spacing is used for airfoil coordinate files to cluster more data points towards the leading and trailing edges of the airfoil, where there are higher curvatures or more detail that needs to be resolved. By using this spacing, less data points can be used to more accurately describe the airfoil's shape when used in other simulations such as panel methods or CFD codes, saving valuable computation time.
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Pop-up menus can be used to make a selection from a list of items. This video shows how to get the users input from a pop-up menu in a MATLAB GUI.
Tip:
The method described in the video gives you a little bit more information to work with when extracting data from the popup menu, but if you want the most efficient code, you can use the code below.
popVal = get(hObject,Value);
assignin(base,popVal,popVal);
In this code, youre simply getting the selected value. The first choice is 1, the second choice is 2, and so on. You can then immediately assign this variable back into the base workspace. This code is much simpler, but you also wont have a variable with the strings of all the choices available. In most of my applications, I dont care about the actual strings, just about the value thats selected.")
![Explained: Check Box GUI [MATLAB]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XUdhhLyJHBg/mqdefault.jpg "Explained: Check Box GUI [MATLAB]
A check box can be used for selection or deselection of an option. This video describes how to get the status of a check box in a MATLAB GUI.
Download the code from my website:
http://goo.gl/jSWqAH")
