Added Masses of Ship Structures

• Main Author: Korotkin, Alexandr I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 88
• Subjects: Engineering.; Fluids.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Fluid mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Building construction.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Mechanical Engineering.; Offshore Engineering.

Knowledge of added body masses that interact with fluid is necessary in various research and applied tasks of hydro- and aeromechanics: steady and unsteady motion of rigid bodies, total vibration of bodies in fluid, local vibration of the external plating of different structures. This reference book...

Table of Contents:

• General Discussion of Body Motion in an Ideal Infinite Fluid
• The Added Masses of Planar Contours Moving in an Ideal Unlimited Fluid
• Added Masses of Three-Dimensional Bodies in Infinite Fluid
• Added Masses of Interacting Bodies
• Added Masses of Bodies Moving Close to a Free Surface
• Added Masses under Elastic Oscillations of Structures and Their Components
• Elastic One-Dimensional Oscillations of an Elongated Body in Fluid: Reduction Coefficients
• Added Masses of a Propeller
• Methods for Experimental Determination of Added Masses.