Free vibration analysis of a hung clamped-free cylindrical shell partially submerged in fluid

The free flexural vibration of a hung clamped-free cylindrical shell partially submerged in a fluid is investigated. The fluid is assumed to be inviscid and irrotational. The cylindrical shell is modelled by using the Rayleigh–Ritz method based on Sanders’ shell theory. The kinetic energy of the fluid is derived by solving the boundary-value problem related to the fluid motion. The natural vibration characteristics of the partially submerged cylindrical shell are discussed with respect to the added virtual mass approach. In this study, the nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor for the partially submerged finite shell is derived. This factor can be readily used to estimate the change in the natural frequency of the shell due to the presence of a fluid.