CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE OSCILLATION
OF SHELLS OF BODIES OF REVOLUTION IMMERSED
IN A VISCOUS FLUID FLOW

S. M. Aul'chenko,a} V. O. Kaledin,b}
and Yu. V. Shpakovab}

UDC 532.533

The influence of the physicomechanical properties of large-scale 
shells on their oscillation in a fluid flow is investigated. It is 
shown that shells of length-variable rigidity may in principle ensure 
the phase velocity of a traveling wave along the meridian such as 
to transfer energy from the fluid to an elastic coating over the starting 
length and thus to preserve it in the form of the energy of elastic 
oscillations and to recover the fluid pulse on the back side.

a}S. A. Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4/1 Institutskaya Str., 
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; email: aultch@itam.nsc.ru; b}Novokuznetsk 
Branch-Institute of the Kemerovo State University, Novokuznetsk, Russia. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 5, pp. 903-906, 
September-October, 2008. Original article submitted November 2, 2007.