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Ingenieur-Archiv 4 ~ (1971) S. 266--280 @ by Springer~Verlag 1971 Dynamic Interaction of a Liquid with the Elast ic Structure of a Circular Cylindrical Container* By H. F. Bauer and J. Siekmann Summary: The present paper investigates the general case of hydroelastic coupled oscillations of a partially filled liquid container with a flexible bottom and an elastic side wall. The bottom behavior is described by the motion of a membrane or a thin, elastic, flat plate, while the sidewall is treated as a thin, elastic shell with its motion described by Donnells shell equations. The liquid is assumed to be inviscid, homogeneous, and incom- pressible, the fluid motion is considered to be irrotational. Ubersicht : In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der allgemeine Fall der gekoppelten hydroelastischen Fliissigkeits- schwingungen im teilweise geft~llten Behglter untersucht. Der flexible Tankboden wird als Membran oder als dfinne ebene Platte, die Behglterwand als elastische diinne Schale angenommen. Ft~r die Beschreibung der Auslenkung der Behglterwand werden die Donnell-Schalengleichnngen verwandt. Die Fliissigkeit wird Ms reibungsfrei, homogen und dichtebestgndig, die Str6mung als wirbelfrei voransgesetzt. 1. Introduction Larger liquid-propelled missiles and space vehicles exhibit considerable elasticity, thus pre- senting new problem areas which were of no concerning influence upon the design and stability of smaller rockets and missiles. Since the fundamental lateral bending frequency of the vehicle decreases approximately as the reciprocal of the square of the length of the vehicle, and since the propellant frequencies decrease with the reciprocal of the square root of the container diameter, a close grouping of these frequencies in the vicinity of the control frequency of the space vehicle creates an acute hydroelastic-control problem. Therefore the coupling of the elastic container wall and tank bottom with the propellant having a free surface must