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The two-dimensional study of the interaction between liquid loshing and elastic structures

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Sloshing phenomenon in the liquid cargo carriers has caught the attention of researchers as the interaction between the sloshing waves and structure is one of the key point and difficulty in the study of sloshing. In this paper, we captured the free surface with a volume of fluid (VOF) method and then calculated the motions and responses of the structure by adopting the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for the whole fluid domain. With the use of user defined functions (UDF) in Fluent, the interaction between fluid and structure was then simulated. As a reasonable simplification, the authors studied the response of a single cantilever in a tank under sloshing loads; Further study should pay more attention to the mechanisms of interaction between sloshing waves and elastic structures.

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  1. Ling Hou

    Present address: Ship and Ocean Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China

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  1. Ship and Ocean Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China

    Ren-qing Zhu & Quan Wang

  2. Engineering college, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, 524088, China

    Ling Hou

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Grant No.10472032, 50879030.

Ling HOU was born in 1985. She is a postgraduate at Jiangsu University of Science and works at Engineering college of Guangdong Ocean University now. Technology and Her current research interests include ship hydrodynamics.

Ren-Qing ZHU was born in 1965. He is a professor at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. His current research interests include hydrodynamics and hydroelasticity, etc.

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Hou, L., Zhu, Rq. & Wang, Q. The two-dimensional study of the interaction between liquid loshing and elastic structures. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 9, 192–199 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-010-0002-0

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