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Küssner effect
Unsteady aerodynamic forces on an airfoil or hydrofoil caused by encountering a transverse gust / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In fluid dynamics, the Küssner effect describes the unsteady aerodynamic forces on an airfoil or hydrofoil caused by encountering a transverse gust. This is directly related to the Küssner function, used in describing the effect. Both the effect and function are named after Hans Georg Küssner (1900–1984), a German aerodynamics engineer.[1]
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Küssner derived an approximate model for an airfoil encountering a sudden step-like change in the transverse gust velocity; or, equivalently, as seen from a frame of reference moving with the airfoil: a sudden change in the angle of attack. The airfoil is modelled as a flat plate in a potential flow, moving with constant horizontal velocity.[2] For this case he derived the impulse response function (known as Küssner function[3]) needed to compute the unsteady lift and moment exerted by the air on the airfoil.