| Abstract: | The potential flow of an ideal incompressible fluid occupying a half-space resulting from the impact of a rectangular plate on its surface is considered. Outside the plate the surface of the fluid is free. An integral equation of the first kind is obtained for the impulsive pressure beneath a flexible plate. It is solved on a computer by the power series method for the particular case of a rigid nondeformable plate. The accuracy of the method is estimated. The theoretical dependence of the virtual mass and virtual moment of inertia coefficients of a rigid nondeformable plate on the plate geometry is constructed and compared with the experimental data and with empirical formulas [1-3] not directly related with the solution of the Laplace equation.Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No.5, pp. 120–126, September–October, 1992. |
