The coupled interaction between a sloshing fluid in a partially-filled container suspended as a bifilar pendulum is investigated. The sloshing fluid has a free-surface upon which waves are generated this fluid contributes a restoring force to the container motion by its weight through the wire suspensions and the free-surface waves may either enhance or diminish the restoring force through hydr...

Sloshing refers to the free surface motion of a fluid in a container. We study the linearized sloshing problem of an incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid in a container, where we focus on the regime where the effect of surface tension dominates the effect of gravity. This is especially important in the microgravity environment, where scientists and engineers have worked to improve our u...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a mathematical tool capable of simulating a wide range of fluid flows. Integrated CFD software has been applied to study the flows in oilfield separators. The influence of inlets, internals, and outlets has been studied with CFD simulations. Of particular value has been the ability of CFD to simulate wave induced sloshing in vessels mounted on floating plat...

A numerical scheme of study is developed to model compressible two-fluid flows simulating liquid sloshing in a partially filled tank. For a two-fluid system separated by an interface as in the case of sloshing, not only a Mach-uniform scheme is required but also an effective way to eliminate unphysical numerical oscillations near the interface. By introducing a preconditioner, the governing equ...

free surface sloshing of liquid in a rectangular tank induced by lateral excitation has been studied numericallyand experimentally in this paper. the numerical simulation is carried out based on the volume of fluid (vof) method that provides free surface extraction in such problem. a tank with transparent walls is used to free surface tracking in experimental study while the movement amplitude ...

Many studies have been reported for the sloshing analysis in liquid containers. One of the major concerns in the marine hydrodynamic field is the accurate prediction of impulsive load on internal structures. During violent sloshing, the sloshing-induced impact load can cause a critical damage on tank structure. Such damage cases have been reported for oil tankers, LNG carriers and bulk carriers...

The coupled motion between shallow water sloshing in a moving vessel with baffles and the vessel dynamics is considered. Here the vessel dynamics is restricted to horizontal motion such as in Tuned Liquid Dampers. It was shown by Turner et al. [20] (Phys. Fluids (2013) 25(10) 112102) that partitioning a moving vessel into n separate compartments leads to an interesting dynamical behaviour of th...

Sloshing problems in partially filled large LNG carriers are of increasing concern because sloshing loads may endanger LNG carriers in operations. Currently, most investigations on sloshing problems mainly focus on the analysis of liquids in rigid tanks which omitted fluid-structure interactions. Based on a mixed displacement–pressure finite element method developed, the authors recently invest...

1Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607. 2Mechanical Engineering Department, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, 25‐28015, Spain 3Department of Astronautics Engineering, Harbin Institute and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150001, China The objective of this investigation is to develop a total Lagr...