Dynamic interaction of an oscillating sphere and an elastic cylindrical shell filled with a fluid and immersed in an elastic medium

The paper studies the interaction of a harmonically oscillating spherical body and a thin elastic cylindrical shell filled with a perfect compressible fluid and immersed in an infinite elastic medium. The geometrical center of the sphere is located on the cylinder axis. The acoustic approximation, the theory of thin elastic shells based on the Kirchhoff—Love hypotheses, and the Lamé equations are used to model the motion of the fluid, shell, and medium, respectively. The solution method is based on the possibility of representing partial solutions of the Helmholtz equations written in cylindrical coordinates in terms of partial solutions written in spherical coordinates, and vice versa. Satisfying the boundary conditions at the shell—medium and shell—fluid interfaces and at the spherical surface produces an infinite system of algebraic equations with coefficients in the form of improper integrals of cylindrical functions. This system is solved by the reduction method. The behavior of the hydroelastic system is analyzed against the frequency of forced oscillations.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 75–86, September 2004.