The Added Masses of Prolate Spheroids Accelerating under a Free Surface

摘要

In this study we shall concern ourselves with one of the required terms, the resistance of a fluid (treated as inviscid) to the accelera-tion of a wholly submerged body moving in the presence of a free sur¬face. Specifically it is our aim to obtain usable expressions for those hydrodynamic force and moment components which tend to vanish whenever the acceleration of the submerged solid goes to zero.