Added Mass of Two Cylinders

• DOI: 10.5957/jsr.1985.29.4.234
• Publication Date: 2021-01-16T01:13:42Z
• Authors: S. K. Venkatesan
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

Expressions for the classical added-mass coefficients have been calculated for the case of two arbitrary circular cylinders using the dipolar coordinate system. These are then applied to calculate the three nonzero added-mass coefficients of two identical circular cylinders in terms of constants of Jacobian elliptic functions. A calculation procedure is also evolved for the case of two circular cylinders of different radii. Finally, these results are extended to the case of twin cylinders of arbitrary shape using a certain family of conformal mappings.