25 巻 (1977) 283 号 p. 356-361
There are few papers for nonuniform in-plane motions of wings, practical applications of which may concern lead-lag motion of helicopter blades and motions of horizontal stabilizer in T-ail flutter. This paper presents a practical application for the basic formulation, which was developed by the present authors in reference 1. An airfoil having an arbitrary camber line is assumed to fly in a sinusoidally pulsating steam, which is inviscid and incompressible. Explicit formulae of lift distribution, lift and pitching moment are presented. The fact pointed out by ISAACS, the quasi-steady theory leads to a significant error, is confirmed in a more general way.