Effect of the vertical baffle height on the liquid sloshing in a three-dimensional rectangular tank

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 79-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Jung ◽  
H.S. Yoon ◽  
C.Y. Lee ◽  
S.C. Shin
2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Han Wang ◽  
Shi-Li Sun

Abstract This study addresses the sloshing characteristics of a liquid contained in a tank with a vertical baffle mounted at the bottom of the tank. Liquid sloshing characteristics are studied through an analytical solution procedure based on the linear velocity potential theory. The tank is forced to sway horizontally and periodically, while the baffle is fixed to the tank or rolling around a hinged point. The rectangular tank flow field is divided into a few sub-domains. The potentials are solved by a separate variable method, and the boundary conditions and matching requirements between adjacent sub-domains are used to determine the sole solution. The free surface elevations with no baffle or a low fixed baffle are compared with those in published data, and the correctness and reliability of the present method are verified. Then the baffle is forced to rotate around the bottom-mounted point. It is found that the baffle’s motion, including the magnitude and the phase together, can be adjusted to suppress the free surface elevation, and even the sloshing wave can be almost eliminated.


Author(s):  
Enhui Zhang ◽  
Wenyan Zhu ◽  
Lihe Wang

Oil liquid sloshing is a common phenomenon in automobile fuel tank under variable working conditions. Installing baffles in automobile fuel tank is the most effective way to suppress adverse influence caused by oil liquid sloshing. Different types of three-dimensional finite element models filling oil liquid are created, meshed, and simulated. The reliability of simulation results is verified by test. The concept of time–area value is proposed in this work. In order to explore the influence of different baffle factors on oil liquid sloshing, six factors are studied. Six kinds of influencing factors are height, structure, shape, spacing, number, and placement of baffles. The sloshing pressure and time–area value are the core parameters for evaluating the influence degree. Some results could be obtained by comparing the parameters of oil liquid sloshing under the same condition. High baffles and baffles with small spacing have obvious attenuation influence on the pressure of oil liquid sloshing. Low baffles, double baffles, parallel baffles, and the combined action of inertia force and gravity are more beneficial to the reduction of time–area value. Time–area value is the largest and the smallest in fuel tank with intersection baffles and low baffles, respectively.


Author(s):  
Takashi Ikeda

Abstract The nonlinear coupled vibrations of an elastic structure and liquid sloshing in a rectangular tank, partially filled with liquid, are investigated. The structure containing the tank is vertically subjected to a sinusoidal excitation. In the theoretical analysis, the resonance curves for the responses of the structure and liquid surface are presented by the harmonic balance method, when the natural frequency of the structure is equal to twice the natural frequency of one of the sloshing modes. From the theoretical analysis, the following predictions have been obtained: (a) Due to the nonlinearity of the fluid force, harmonic oscillations appear in the structure, while subharmonic oscillations occur on the liquid surface, (b) the shapes of the resonance curves markedly change depending on the liquid depth, and (c) when the detuning condition is slightly deviated, almost periodic oscillations and chaotic oscillations appear at certain intervals of the excitation frequency. These were qualitatively in good agreement with the experimental results.


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