The added mass of two-dimensional cylinders heaving in water of finite depth
- 9 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 81 (01) , 85-105
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211207700192x
Abstract
This paper presents numerical results for the added-mass and damping coefficients of semi-submerged two-dimensional heaving cylinders in water of finite depth. A simple proof is given which shows that the added mass is bounded for all frequencies in water of finite depth. The limits of the added-mass and damping coefficients are studied as the frequency tends to zero and to infinity. A new formulation valid in the low-frequency limit is constructed by using a perturbation expansion in the wavenumber parameter. For the limiting cases, dual extremum principles are used, which consist of two variational principles: a minimum principle for a functional and a maximum principle for a different but related functional. These two functionals are used to obtain lower and upper bounds on the added mass in the limiting cases. However, the functionals constructed (Bai & Yeung 1974) for the general frequency range (excluding the limiting cases) have neither a minimum nor a maximum. In this case, the approximate solution cannot be proved to be bounded either below or above by the true solution. To illustrate these methods, the added-mass and damping coefficients are computed for a circular cylinder oscillating in water of several different depths. Results are also presented for rectangular cylinders with three different beamdraft ratios at several water depths.Keywords
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