Lifting surface in subsonic unsteady regime (Q1303130)

The paper deals with numerical solution of the integral equation for acceleration (pressure) potential in order to study subsonic linearized flows past harmonically oscillating wings in view of aeroelastic applications. The kernel of the integral equation is transformed such that the singularities (which are either integrable in elementary form or considered in principal part according to Hadamard's rule) are separated from the regular part, and the discretization is performed in such a way that only the regular part is to be recalculated for each new value of the reduced frequency. In order to make the quadrature schemes efficient, the authors split the kernel into six terms: four of them are independent of reduced frequency, two are not; repeating the analysis for several (theoretically infinite) number of values of reduced frequency (as it is needed in Fourier's domain), it is possible to save the computational time. Convergence tests and comparisons with other methods of solution are performed for the trapezoidal wing with infinitely thin surfaces without discontinuities.