The effect of baffles on fluid sloshing inside the moving rectangular tank

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Sloshing Tank FVM Baffles OpenFOAM

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K. Threepopnartkul
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand 73170
C. Suvanjumrat
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand 73170

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Sloshing of fluid inside a container such as tanker trucks is the important phenomenon that develops pressure on tank wall which can cause structural damage or loss of the maneuvering stability. Decreasing the severe sloshing, the baffles are required to be included into the tank at appropriate locations. The FVM (Finite Volume Method) is the favorite method for analyzing the fluid sloshing. The effect of baffles on the fluid sloshing can be investigated using the computational models. This research improved C++ code of the fluid sloshing inside the movable tanks with and without baffles. These codes were implemented in the Open Source software that was the OpenFOAM. The computational results were validated with the experiment results which had a good correlation. The different results between simulation and experiment were digitized using the image processing techniques and had the average error less than 3.73%. This error can be proved that the computational method can be used to evaluate the effects of the baffles to control the sloshing of fluid inside the tanker trucks.

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Threepopnartkul, K., & Suvanjumrat, C. (2018). The effect of baffles on fluid sloshing inside the moving rectangular tank. Journal of Research and Applications in Mechanical Engineering, 1(2), 37–42. Retrieved from https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jrame/article/view/150184
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES

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