CFD ANALYSIS OF NON-LINEAR SLOSHING IN A CYLINDRICAL TANK

Shruti Baghel, Subhash Shinde

Abstract: Present study involves CFD analysis of non-linear sloshing inside a partially filled cylindrical tank under harmonic excitation with two different frequencies using commercial software suite Fluidyn MP.Water-air interface is captured through volume of fluid (VOF) multiphase model using high resolution interface capturing scheme (HRIC). Flow is considered as laminar and full gravity model is implemented. Obtained numerical results in terms of wave height or sloshing height are compared with experimental values given by Yung - Hsiang Chen et.al. [1]. Obtained numerical results for two different excitation frequencies are observed to be showing good qualitative and quantitative agreement with experimental results.

Keywords: Fluidyn MP, CFD, VOF, HRIC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0612018