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Simulation of sloshing in a bi-lobe tank under arbitrary rotation using the FDS scheme and the HCIB method

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Three-dimensional sloshing in a bi-lobe tank under arbitrary rotation is simulated using a code developed using the flux-difference splitting scheme for variable density incompressible fluids and the hybrid Cartesian/immersed boundary method. The material interface is regarded as a moving contact discontinuity and is captured using a free surface capturing method derived from the Riemann solver, without any additional treatment along the interface. The boundary condition for the arbitrary motion of the bi-lobe tank, which contains a thin partition between two partially overlapping cylindrical tanks, is handled with ease by using the hybrid Cartesian/immersed boundary method. The computed time evolution of the interface is compared with the snapshots taken during the experiments on sloshing caused by the sway motion of the bi-lobe tank. Good agreement is observed between the computational and experimental results. The validated code is used to simulate three-dimensional sloshing in the bi-lobe tank that is subject to combined pitch and roll motions. A rotational vector is used to locate the Lagrangian points of the unstructured surface grid according to the motion of the tank. Grid independence tests are carried out using three different size grids. Violent three-dimensional sloshing ensues with an increase in the angular velocity of rotation.

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  1. Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Changwon National University, Changwon, 641-773, Korea

    Hyeon Kyu Yoon

  2. Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, 608-737, Korea

    Sangmook Shin

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Hyeon Kyu Yoon received his B.S., M.S, and Ph.D degrees from the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea, in 1989, 1991, and 2003, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Changwon National University. His research field includes simulations of marine vehicles and model tests in water tanks.

Sangmook Shin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D degree in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech, USA, in 2001. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering at Pukyong National University, Korea. His main research interests are in the areas of development of CFD codes, free surface flows, and fluid-structure interactions.

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Yoon, H.K., Shin, S. Simulation of sloshing in a bi-lobe tank under arbitrary rotation using the FDS scheme and the HCIB method. J Mech Sci Technol 26, 3491–3501 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-012-0864-y

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