Abstract
The growth and collapse of a bubble under a floating body are simulated by using the boundary element method to predict the damage of ship bodies induced by underwater explosion. The three-dimensional deformation of the bubble, the translation and rotation of the floating body, and the motion of water surface are taken into account in the simulation. It is shown that the Kelvin impulse is found to be useful in predicting the translational motion of the bubble. Also, the horizontal translational motion of the bubble is much dependent on the rotational motion of a floating body; when the moment of inertia of the floating body is small, the largest horizontal translation is realized between the axis of flotation and the edge of the floating body.
