WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1790-5087, E-ISSN: 2224-347X
Volume 11, 2016
Computational Investigation of the External Excitation Frequency Effect on Liquid Sloshing Phenomenon
Authors: , , ,
Abstract: In this work, the Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) method was used to simulate the liquid sloshing phenomenon in a rectangular tank. The tank was subjected to an external sinusoidal excitation. Particularly, we are interested on the study of the external excitation frequency effect. The hydrodynamic parameters describing the flow like the velocity field, the average velocity, the static and the dynamic pressure were presented. All numerical results were conducted using the commercial CFD code FLUENT. The volume of fluid (VOF) method based on the finite volume method was used to simulate incompressible viscous two phase flow in a tank partially filled with liquid. The results show that the liquid sloshing significantly depends on the frequency value. For a weak value of frequency, the liquid moves slowly. With the increase of the frequency, the liquid sloshing becomes more violent. A good agreement has been shown by comparing our numerical results with the experimental one.
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WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5087 / 2224-347X, Volume 11, 2016, Art. #1