By doingintegralcomputationon the wake surface that is down from theaircraft and verticaltothe velocityof far field, it can get the lift, induceddrag, wavedragand the total drag.
The morning haze had burned off, and in the noon light the brackish water appeared deceptively lovely, its surface undisturbed except for a single Jet Ski carving a white wake whose exhausted wavelets lapped at the riprap at the side of the road.