We propose a control design scheme that aims to prevent undesirable liquid outpouring and suppress sloshing during the forward and backward tilting phases of the pouring process, for the case of liquid containers carried by manipulators. The proposed scheme combines a partial inverse dynamics controller with a PID controller, tuned with the use of a “metaheuristic” search algorithm. The “metahe...

Vibration absorbers are employed for both structural safety and comfort reasons. This paper explores a novel absorber which uses the sloshing of granular particles to dissipate energy in a rolling container. Some of the parameters which affect energy dissipation have been experimentally studied. Detailed description of one experiment is given. Further work involves numerical exploration.

In this paper, the sloshing response of liquid in a two dimensional rigid rectangular tank with rigid baffles is investigated using boundary element technique. A baffle is a supplementary structural element which supplies a kind of passive control on the effects of ground shaking. The complicated liquid domain is divided into two simple sub-domains so that the liquid velocity potential in each ...

We present a method for charge mixing in self-consistent density functional calculations which uses the Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker equation to solve implicitly for the charge density response function to the potential. This approach has significant improvements over existing methods, particularly for inhomogeneous systems with large unit cells which commonly suffer from poor convergence due to...

Oscillating water column wave energy converter is a power generation device in which ocean waves excite the oscillation of surface an air chamber, generates fluctuations pressure and rotate turbine generator(s). The fluid chamber phenomenon with natural period, similar to container such as sloshing. Previous research has shown that for oscillating single submerged water, characteristics can be ...