Added mass of a circular cylinder

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Added mass of a circular cylinder by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-20
An infinitely long circular cylinder of radius translating across its axis through otherwise stationary, inviscid incompressible fluid has added mass per unit length. The decaying, circulation-free velocity potential is . In moving centre coordinates, the fixed-laboratory derivative is . The Unsteady Bernoulli equation gives . Integrating around yields ; the transverse force vanishes. Taking a derivative at fixed centre coordinates would omit the necessary convective correction.

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