HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES ON NEAR-BED UNDERWATER DATACENTER

Compare with the flow past a sphere and finite-length cylinders, flow around a short cylinder with hemisphere ends has not been studied extensively. As a transition variant of sphere and finite-length cylinder, it is ubiquitous in engineering, e.g. submarine-like shape[1] and underwater datacenter (UDC)[2, 3]. There are few works focusing on hydrodynamic forces on a near-bed short cylinder with hemisphere ends, despite of its wide range of engineering applications.