Approximate method of determining liquid oscillation frequencies in cavities of revolution

Variational methods [1–4], which require the use of computers, are widely used at present for determining the oscillation frequencies of liquid partially filling an arbitrary cavity of revolution. A technique is given in [5] for the approximate solution of this problem for a cavity which differs little from a cavity for which the solution is known. In the present paper we obtain an approximate first-order differential equation for the frequency squared, using the filling level as the independent variable. Calculations were made using this method for several cavities (sphere, cylinder with spherical base, cone with varying apex angles, torus). Comparison of these results with the results obtained experimentally by other theoretical methods shows that the proposed method is sufficiently accurate for engineering applications.The author wishes to thank I. V. Kolin for carrying out the calculations.