Impulsive impact of a twin hull

Abstract: An impulsively starting motion of two cylindrical bodies floating on a free liquid surface is considered. The shape of the cross-section of each body and the distance between them is arbitrary. The integral hodograph method is advanced to derive the complex velocity potential defined in a rectangle parameter region in terms of the elliptic quasi-doubly periodic Jacobi theta functions. A system of singular integral equations in the velocity magnitude on the free surface and in the slope of the wetted part of each body is derived using the kinematic boundary condition, which is then solved numerically. The velocity field, the pressure impulse on the bodies, and the added mass coefficients of each body immediately after the impact are determined in a wide range of distances between the bodies and for the cross-sectional shapes such as flat plate and half-circle.