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A numerical study of liquid sloshing in a two-dimensional tank under external excitations

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In this research, liquid sloshing behavior in a 2-D rectangular tank was simulated using ANSYS-FLUENT software subject to single or multiple-coupled external excitations (such as sway coupled with roll, and sway and roll coupled with heave). The volume of fluid (VOF) method was used to track the free surface of sloshing. External excitation was imposed through the motion of the tank by using the dynamic mesh technique. The study shows that if the tank is subjected to multiple coupled excitations and resonant excitation frequencies, liquid sloshing will become violent and sloshing loads, including impact on the top wall, will be intensified.

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  1. Engineering College, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, 524088, China

    Ling Hou & Fangcheng Li

  2. Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Chunliang Wu

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.30770394.

Ling Hou was born in 1985. She is a teacher at Engineering College of Guangdong Ocean University. Her current research interests include ship hydrodynamics.

Chunliang Wu is a post-doctoral research fellow at Louisiana State University. He got his PhD degree in Engineering Mechanics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2004 and worked as Associate Professor at Guangdong Ocean University. He has co-authored 3 books and 17 peer-reviewed journal articles, which are internationally circulated in the field of chemical engineering, environmental engineering and fluid mechanics. His research interest includes computational fluid dynamics of multiphase flows and indoor/outdoor air quality modeling.

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Hou, L., Li, F. & Wu, C. A numerical study of liquid sloshing in a two-dimensional tank under external excitations. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 11, 305–310 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-012-1137-y

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