• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.545-565
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• 2018

A numerical code is developed based on potential flow theory to investigate nonlinear sloshing in rectangular Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tanks under forced excitation. Using this code, internal free-surface elevation and sloshing loads on liquid tanks can be obtained both in time domain and frequency domain. In the mathematical model, acceleration potential is solved in the calculation of pressure on tanks and the artificial damping model is adopted to account for energy dissipation during sloshing. The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is used to solve boundary value problems of both velocity potential and acceleration potential. Numerical calculation results are compared with published results to determine the efficiency and accuracy of the numerical code. Sloshing properties in partially filled rectangular and membrane tank under translational and rotational excitations are investigated. It is found that sloshing under horizontal and rotational excitations share similar properties. The first resonant mode and excitation frequency are the dominant response frequencies. Resonant sloshing will be excited when vertical excitation lies in the instability region. For liquid tank under rotational excitation, sloshing responses including amplitude and phase are sensitive to the location of the center of rotation. Moreover, experimental tests were conducted to analyze viscous effects on sloshing and to validate the feasibility of artificial damping models. The results show that the artificial damping model with modifying wall boundary conditions has better applicability in simulating sloshing under different fill levels and excitations.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.859-860
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• 2010

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.617-618
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• 2010

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1991년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.43-48
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• 1991

In this paper the liquid sloshing effects in rectangular liquid stroage structures under earthquake loadings are studied. The study focuses on the investigation of the effect of the flexibility of the stroage wall. The storage structure is modelled using beam elements. The motion of the liquid is expressed by the Laplace equation. The equation of motion is formulated including the coupling between the wall motion and the sloshing motion. Seismic analyses have been carried out utilizing the response spectra method.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.508-516
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• 2010

This study aims at investigating the effect of the chamfer on the liquid sloshing in the three-dimensional (3D) rectangular tank. In order to simulate the 3D incompressible viscous two-phase flow in the 3D tank with partially filled liquid, the present study has adopted the volume of fluid (VOF) method based on the finitevolume method which has been well verified by comparing with the results of the relevant previous researches. The effects of the chamfering top corners of the tank on the liquid sloshing characteristics have been investigated. The angle of the chamfering top corners (${\theta}$) has been changed in the range of $0^{\circ}{\leq}{\theta}{\leq}60^{\circ}$(${\Delta}{\theta}=15^{\circ}$) to observe the free surface behavior, and the effect on wall impact load. Generally, as the angle of the chamfering top corners increases, the impact pressure on the upper knuckle point decreases. However it seemed that a critical angle of the chamfering top corners exists to reveal the lowest impact pressure on the wall.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.467-480
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• 2020

Concrete rectangular liquid storage tanks are widely used, but there are many cases of damage in previous earthquakes. Nonlinear fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is considered, Mooney-Rivlin material is used for rubber bearing, nonlinear contact is used for sliding bearing, numerical calculation models of no-isolation, rubber isolation, sliding isolation and hybrid isolation concrete rectangular liquid storage tanks are established; dynamic responses of different structures are compared to verify the effectiveness of isolation methods; and influences of earthquake amplitude, bidirectional earthquake and far-field long-period earthquake on dynamic responses are investigated. Results show that for liquid sloshing wave height, rubber isolation cause amplification effect, while sliding isolation and hybrid isolation have reduction effect; displacement of rubber isolation structure is much larger than that of sliding isolation with limiting-devices and hybrid isolation structure; when PGA is larger, wall cracking probability of no-isolation structure becomes larger, and probability of liquid sloshing wave height and structure displacement of rubber isolation structure exceeds the limit is also larger; under bidirectional earthquake, occurrence probabilities that liquid sloshing wave height and structure displacement of rubber isolation structure exceed the limit will be increased; besides, far-field long-period earthquake mainly influences structure displacement and liquid sloshing wave height. On the whole, control effect of sliding isolation is the best, followed by hybrid isolation, and rubber isolation is the worst.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.96-104
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• 1991

This study is concerned with the fluid sloshing dampers to suppress the high vibration in the resonance and operating regions. An experimental investigation was conducted to determine the logarithmic decrement, natural frequency, tuning frequency ratio of oscillation of liquids contained in an spherical rigid container. The decay of the vibration amplitude was studied for the range of liquid filling ratio in container. The results of the investigation indicate that the sloshing motion of liquids results in an increase in the available effective damping when the filling ratio is in the region near H/R=1.3-1.6.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2017

Since sloshing effects influences ship motions including floater's natural frequencies. The significant factors changing ship motions are inner liquid impact loads and inertia forces and moments with respect to its filling ratio. This means that changing sloshing loads with sloshing effects reduction device (SERD) may control ship motions. In this regard, conceptual model for adjustable SERD was suggested by authors and then implanted into fully coupled program between vessel motion and sloshing. By changing clearances of baffles in the inner tank which were component of SERD, then the roll RAOs from each case were obtained. It is revealed that using well-controlled SERD can maintain natural frequencies of floater even inner tank has different filling ratio.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.79-98
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• 2012

In the present paper, the three-dimensional model of a typical rectangular concrete tank is excited using an artificial and a natural three components earthquake ground motion and the staggered displacement method is utilized for solving the coupled problem of the tank-contained liquid system in time domain. In the proposed method, surface sloshing of the liquid is taken into account in addition to the impulsive term and the appropriate damping values are applied on both of them. The resulted responses are compared with those obtained from the ABAQUS finite element software. It is found that the convective term affects responses extensively and must be considered in seismic design/safety assessment of storage tanks. In addition, the utilized method for solving the coupled problem is stable during the conducted general dynamic analyses and is able to capture the expected phenomena.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.173-177
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 구형(sphere) 용기 내 작동유체로 물과 자성유체(ferrofluid)를 사용하였을 경우의 구형 용기의 병진 운동에 따른 슬로싱(sloshing) 현상에 대하여 실험적으로 고찰하였고 두 가지 작동유체에서 나타나는 특성을 비교하였다. 구형 용기의 병진운동에 따른 슬로싱 현상을 고찰하기 위하여, 자기장(magnetic field)을 0 mT에서 50 mT로 변화시키고, 가진 진폭을 5 mm에서 15 mm로 변화시켜가면서 실험을 수행하였다. 결과적으로, 구형 용기내의 자성유체는 자기장를 인가하지 않았을 때 물과 유사한 액면거동 현상을 나타내었고, 자성유체에 인가되는 자기장 세기가 증가할수록 공진점(resonance point) 발생이 이론공진주파수(theoretical resonance frequency)보다 높은 영역에서 발생함을 확인하였다. 즉 용기 내 슬로싱은 자성유체를 사용할 경우 인가 자기장의 크기에 따라 공진점이 발생하는 공진주파수를 제어할 수 있으며 액면 변위의 크기를 제어할 수 있었다.