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A method is presented for calculating the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of harmonically oscillating thin wings traveling at high subsonic speed. The medium is assumed ideal. The aerodynamic coefficients are expressed in terms of the rotational derivatives, which are determined for a Strouhal number of zero. The calculation of the rotational derivatives of the aerodynamic coefficients in a compressible medium reduces to the conversion of the corresponding characteristics of a transformed wing, determined in an incompressible medium for altered boundary conditions. To calculate the aerodynamic characteristics of the transformed wing in the incompressible medium we use a technique based on replacement of the lifting surface by a system of discrete unsteady vortices. The problem is solved in general form, and together with the new relations for the rotational derivatives with dots we derive the known formulas for the rotational derivatives without dots.
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Kolesnikov, G.A. Method of calculating unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a lifting surface at high subsonic speed. Fluid Dyn 2, 81–84 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01013720
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01013720