Abstract
A liquid sloshing experimental rig driven by a wave-maker is designed and built to study liquid sloshing problems in a rectangular liquid tank with perforated baffle. A series of experiments are conducted in this experimental rig to estimate the free surface fluctuation and pressure distribution by changing external excitation frequency of the shaking table. An in-house CFD code is also used in this study to simulate the liquid sloshing in three-dimensional (3D) rectangular tank with perforated baffle. Good agreements of free surface elevation and pressure between the numerical results and the experimental data are obtained and presented. Spectral analysis of the time history of free surface elevation is conducted by using the fast Fourier transformation.
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The research was financially supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2012M511192), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51209080 and 51061130547), the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering (Grant No. LP1207), the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering (Grant No. 1213), the Qing Lan Project and 333 Project of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BRA2012130), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Hohai University, Grant No. 2012B06514), and the 111 Project (Grant No. B12032) and Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20120181110084).
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Xue, Ma., Lin, Pz., Zheng, Jh. et al. Effects of perforated baffle on reducing sloshing in rectangular tank: Experimental and numerical study. China Ocean Eng 27, 615–628 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-013-0052-6
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