Impact on a degenerate torus floating in a fluid of infinite depth (Q1925287)

The vertical impact problem is considered for a degenerate torus, a solid obtained by rotation of a circle about its tangent, half-immersed in an ideal fluid of infinite depth. The impact is assumed to be such that the flow past the torus is attached (separationless impact). After odd continuation of the velocity potential across the free surface, the problem is divided into two subproblems. The first corresponds to the translational motion of the torus in an unbounded fluid along the axis of symmetry, and the second to the rotation of the torus. In the present paper, the velocity potential is found in quadratures for the translational motion of the degenerate torus. For the rotational flow, the problem is reduced to the solution of a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. Degenerate bipolar coordinates are used. The numerical values of the added mass and the added moment of inertia are found. The separationless impact condition is derived.