FREE MOTION OF A CYLINDER UNDER THE SURFACE OF A DEEP FLUID

Abstract

A nonlinear problem of unsteady motion of a circular cylinder in an ideal infinitely deep fluid under the action of arising hydrodynamic loads is considered. A method of reducing the solution of the initial mathematical problem to the solution of an equivalent integrodifferential system of equations for the function determining the shape of the sought free surface for the normal and tangential components of the fluid velocity on the free surface, and for the unknown trajectory of cylinder motion is used. The initial (in terms of time) asymptotic curve of the solution, which describes the cylinder motion from the state at rest is constructed.