Un petit coup de Google et on trouve :
citations :
Efficient and accurate computation of the incomplete Airy functions
An efficient and accurate method for computing the incomplete Airy functions
would make the solutions to such problems useful for engineering purposes. ...
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3843922 -
On a class of complete and incomplete generalized Airy functions ...
and the incomplete Generalized Airy function is the appropriate canonical
function .... On Incomplete Airy Functions and their application ...
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel2/668/5790/00221909.pdf?arnumber=221909 -
On the efficient calculation of the incomplete Airy function with ...
One such transition function is the incomplete Airy function which is applicable
when two reflection points are arbitrarily close to each other and the ...
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1988/RS023i006p01133.shtml -
On the efficient calculation of the incomplete airy function with ...
Citation: Cwik, T. (1988), On the efficient calculation of the incomplete airy
function with application to edge diffraction, Radio Sci., 23(6), 11331140. ...
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1988/88RS03458.shtml - 4k - Archivé en mémoire
On Incomplete Airy Functions and Their Application to Diffraction ...
On Incomplete Airy Functions and Their Application to Diffraction Problems.
Authors: Levey, L.; Felsen, L. B.. Publication: Radio Science, vol. ...
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1969RaSc....4..959L -
DLMF: incomplete
Incomplete Airy functions are defined by the contour integral (9.5.4) when one
of ... Efficient and accurate computation of the incomplete Airy functions, ...
http://dlmf.nist.gov/search/search?q=incomplete - 12k - Archivé en mémoire
etc.
Je pense qu'en étudiant ces documents (et d'autres à rechercher dans les fonds bibliographiques), guinotfr trouvera la réponse qu'il souhaitait : Les primitives de la fonction cos(at+bt^3) s'expriment de façon relativement simple avec ces fameuses "Incomplete Airy Functions". Il s'avère exister toute une littérature sur leurs propriétés, ainsi que des algorithmes performants pour les calculer numériquement.