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On the harmonic oscillations of a rigid body on a free surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

W. D. Kim
Affiliation:
Beeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington

Abstract

The present paper deals with the practical and rigorous solution of the potential problem associated with the harmonic oscillation of a rigid body on a free surface. The body is assumed to have the form of either an elliptical cylinder or an ellipsoid. The use of Green's function reduces the determination of the potential to the solution of an integral equation. The integral equation is solved numerically and the dependency of the hydrodynamic quantities such as added mass, added moment of inertia and damping coefficients of the rigid body on the frequency of the oscillation is established.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1965 Cambridge University Press

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