Calculation and Compilation of the Unsteady-lift Functions for a Rigid Wing Subjected to Sinusoidal Gusts and to Sinusoidal Sinking Oscillations

The total lift responses to sinusoidal sinking oscillations and to sinusoidal gusts have been calculated, largely from existing information, for wings of various plan forms in subsonic and supersonic flow. For most of the cases considered, closed-form expressions are given and the final results are presented in the form of plots of the square of the modulus of the lift coefficient for wings in a sinusoidally oscillating gust field and in the form of the real and imaginary parts of the lift coefficient for wings undergoing sinusoidal sinking oscillations