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A fully coupled ship motion and sloshing analysis in various container geometries

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In the present study a novel modeling approach is presented to solve the combined internal sloshing and sea-keeping problem. The model deals with interesting effects arising due to the coupled interaction between the sloshing in partially filled containers of several geometries and the ship motion. The study is very important for the liquid cargo carrier operating in rough sea or under different environmental conditions. The resulting slosh characteristics that include transient pressure variation, free surface profiles and hydrodynamic pressure over the container walls have been reported in this study. In addition, the effects of coupled ship response and sloshing on ship motion parameters have also been investigated. The equations of motion of fluid, considered inviscid, irrotational, and partially compressible, are expressed in terms of the pressure variable alone. A finite difference-based iterative time-stepping technique is employed to advance the coupled solution in the time domain. Several parameters of interest, including the container parameters, level of liquid, thrusters modeling and some important environmental factors are investigated.

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Acknowledgments

The authors greatly acknowledge the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for ship motion MCsim β4 program developed by Oyvind Notland Smogeli and students. The first author is grateful for the financial support provided by the Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering (CORE) at the National University of Singapore. This work is partially supported by a grant from Qatar National Research Foundation under NPRP-08-691-2-289.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 1 Engineering Drive 2, Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    S. Mitra & B. C. Khoo

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    L. V. Hai

  3. Institute of High Performance Computing, A STAR, Singapore, Singapore

    L. Jing

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Mitra, S., Hai, L.V., Jing, L. et al. A fully coupled ship motion and sloshing analysis in various container geometries. J Mar Sci Technol 17, 139–153 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-012-0157-2

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