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We experimentally study the behavior of a flat body in the oscillating container with liquid. The body density is much more than the density of liquid. The body oscillates with large amplitude under the action of inertia forces. It is found that under the vibration the body lifts up and goes to quasi-steady suspended state at some distance from the container bottom. The lift force is measured by a method of dynamic suspension of a body in the gravity field. It is found that the dimensionless repulsion lift force depends on the dimensionless amplitude of the body oscillations; it reduces with the amplitude and is in agreement with the theoretical model in the limit of small amplitude. Qualitatively new regimes of body behavior are found in the supercritical region. With an increase of the vibration intensity, the body gets a stable state in the middle of the container height and then moves on to the container ceiling.

The behaviour of a heavy cylindrical body in a rotating horizontal cylindrical cavity filled with viscous liquid is investigated experimentally. Several modes of the body behaviour depending on the rate of the cavity rotation, i.e., the ratio of the centrifugal force of inertia and the gravity, are detected. At a fast rotation rate, the body makes the solid-body rotation, remaining immobile relative to the cavity due to the action of the centrifugal force. In the absence of rotation, under the influence of gravity, the body occupies a position in the lower part of the cavity. At slow uniform rotation rate, the body is dragged by the cavity boundary and shifts to some angle relative to the initial position. With an increase in the rotation rate, the body is repulsed from the cavity boundary and occupies a suspended position, stationary in the laboratory frame, at a certain distance from it. In the suspension regime and the partial repulsion regime, which precedes it, the body performs auto-oscillations that resemble the precession. The flow structures near the suspended cylinder are studied using the PIV method.