Drag force and virtual mass of a cylindrical porous shell in potential flow (Q1202583)

We study the two-dimensional potential flow due to a circular cylinder in motion relative to an unbounded fluid. The cylinder consists of a thin, circular porous shell with fluid inside. The full nonlinear hydrodynamic problem is solved by Fourier expansion of Green's theorem. The truncated series is determined numerically by sampling points around the circle. Some of the results may be relevant to offshore engineering, especially in connection with porous coating of platform legs to reduce the total force.