aeroelastic-gust-responselisted
Install: claude install-skill ashfordeOU/aero-agent-skills
# Aeroelastic Gust Response (aerodynamics/aeroelasticity/aeroelastic-gust-response)
Use when the task is the DYNAMIC response of a flexible two-degree-of-freedom
typical wing section to a discrete gust: the plunge and pitch time histories
driven by the unsteady (indicial) aerodynamic lift, the dynamic magnification
factor of the peak lift over the quasi-steady value, and the peak-load
verdict against a limit. This leaf is the flexible-section RESPONSE problem,
distinct from the rigid discrete-gust certification load case
(structures/loads/gust-maneuver-loads owns that load method), from the flutter speed search (flutter-speed-prediction
owns the V-g method), and from static divergence (divergence-speed). The
model pairs with flutter-speed-prediction: the same typical-section
machinery, a different question (stability there, forced response here).
## Domain quick reference
- Typical section: plunge h (positive DOWN, m), pitch theta (positive
nose-up, rad) about an elastic axis at fraction e of the chord from the
leading edge; per-unit-span mass m_s (kg/m), pitch inertia I_theta
(kg m^2/m), plunge stiffness k_h (N/m), pitch stiffness k_theta
(N m/rad), structural damping ignored. Reduced time s = 2*V*t/c with
semi-chord b = c/2.
- Sign conventions: lift L is positive UPWARD (conventional lift) and the
plunge equation is m_s*h_ddot + k_h*h = -L; an upward gust therefore
accelerates the section upward, the physically correct direction. A
section moving down (h_