The paper describes the SPH modeling of a plane problem of fluid flow around a rigid circular cylinder. In the model considered, the cylinder is placed in a rectangular fluid domain at a certain distance from a horizontal plane boundary, and it is subjected to fluid flow forces. The fluid motion is induced by a piston type generator. The generator -fluid system starts to move from rest at a certain moment of time. The work aims at a discrete description of the fluid flow around the cylinder and, at the same time, calculation of the pressure distribution along the circumference of the cylinder and the resultant of the pressure on the cylinder. In order to solve the initial value problem considered, a new SPH formulation of boundary conditions on the cylinder surface is proposed which match the physical condition for the fluid velocity at this boundary. For a viscous fluid, an approximate description of the stress tensor is formulated which allows to reduce the differentiation of field functions to the first order in calculating the shear forces in the SPH approach.

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The paper deals with free and forced vibrations of a horizontal thin elastic plate submerged in an infinite layer of fluid of constant depth. In free vibrations, the pressure load on the plate results from assumed displacements of the plate. In forced vibrations, the fluid pressure is mainly induced by water waves arriving at the plate. In both cases, we have a coupled problem of hydrodynamics in which the plate and fluid motions are coupled through boundary conditions at the plate surface. At the same time, the pressure load on the plate depends on the gap between the plate and the fluid bottom. The motion of the plate is accompanied by the fluid motion. This leads to the so-called co-vibrating mass of fluid, which strongly changes the eigenfrequencies of the plate. In formulation of this problem, a linear theory of small deflections of the plate is employed. In order to calculate the fluid pressure, a solution of Laplace’s equation is constructed in the doubly connected infinite fluid domain. To this end, this infinite domain is divided into sub-domains of simple geometry, and the solution of the problem equation is constructed separately for each of these domains. Numerical experiments are conducted to illustrate the formulation developed in this paper.