SUMMARYA damper technique is proposed to model the effects of radiation damping in the finite element analysis of hydrodynamic pressures generated due to the vibration of a structure submerged in a compressible fluid. The proposed damper is suitablc for a time-domain analysis. It is assumed that the fluid is inviscid and its vibration is of small amplitude. The structure-fluid system is assumed to be two-dimensional, and the fluid domain is considered to be unbounded along the direction of structural vibration. In the finite element analysis, pressure is assumed to be the nodal unknown, and the discretized equations of motion are solvcd by using a direct integration procedure. As a result of the analysis of several cases, the proposed damper is found to be very effective and efficient for a wide range of the period of excitation. The only exception is the case when the period of excitation is near the natural period of vibration of the fluid domain. For this case, the pressure becomes infinitely large and there is no requirement for any damper. The implementation of the proposed damper in the finite element analysis requires practically no extra computational effort. With the use of the suggested technique, an unbounded fluid domain may be truncated a t a relatively very short distance from the structure, as compared to the distance required when the Sommerfeld damper is used. As a rcsult of these advantages of the proposed technique, the cost of computation is greatly reduced.
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