Three-dimensional flow around a submerged body in finite-depth water (Q1344679)

The three-dimensional fluid flow around an axisymmetric body submerged in a finite-depth fluid is calculated by an analytical/numerical method based on a Green's function formulation. The flow around a submerged axisymmetric body, such as the infinite-fluid analogue of a Rankine body, can be constructed by superposition of a source and a sink along the axis of symmetry. Analytical evaluation is complicated because of the singular Cauchy-type principal-value integrals with infinite and semi-infinite limits. In this study these integrals are evaluated by using a set of adaptive numerical quadratures. This approach is direct, and it does not require an asymptotic expansion.