Elliptic Cylinder Calculator

Calculations at a right elliptic cylinder. This is a generalized right cylinder with an ellipse as base. It looks like a right circular cylinder that has been compressed laterally.
Enter the two semi axes lengths of the ellipse and the height of the cylinder and choose the number of decimal places. Then click Calculate.

	Semi-major axi (a):			Bases: 2 ellipses
	Semi-minor axis (b):
	Height (h):
	Lateral surface (L):
	Surface area (A):
	Volume (V):
	Surface-to-volume ratio (A/V):
	Round to   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15   decimal places.

Semi axes and height have the same unit (e.g. meter), the surfaces have this unit squared (e.g. square meter), the volume has this unit to the power of three (e.g. cubic meter). The lateral surface is the curved part of the surface area.

The area of ​​an ellipse, unlike its circumference, can be easily and simply calculated from its two semi-axes. Therefore, calculating the cylinder volume is also straightforward, since for a cylinder, this is the area of ​​the base multiplied by the height.
The elliptical cylinder is mirror-symmetric about three planes. One is the plane that runs parallel to the two bases and midway between them. The other two planes pass through the major or minor semi-axes of the two elliptical bases, respectively. An elliptical cylinder is rotationally symmetric at an angle of 180 degrees along the axis through the centers of the two ellipses. It is also point-symmetric about the center of the ellipse created when it is divided midway parallel to the two bases.
Tanks are sometimes shaped like horizontal elliptical cylinders. This makes them more stable and has a lower center of gravity, as well as offering other advantages. The content of such a tank partially filled is calculated from the area of ​​the elliptical segment multiplied by the length.

Last updated on 03/30/2026. Author: Jürgen Kummer

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