Shock and Vibration
Volume 2021 (2021), Article ID 5545635, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5545635

Research Article

Numerical Modeling of Coupled Surge-Heave Sloshing in a Rectangular Tank with Baffles

Lv Ren,1,2 Yinjie Zou,3,4 Jinbo Tang,⁵ Xin Jin,3,4 Dengsong Li,⁶ and Mingming Liu³

¹College of Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443000, China
²China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute, Beijing 100120, China
³College of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
⁴State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
⁵Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Surface Process, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
⁶College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya-an, Sichuan 625014, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Xin Jin; jinx@cdut.edu.cn

Received 6 January 2021; Revised 5 April 2021; Accepted 11 May 2021; Published 1 June 2021

Academic Editor: Mi-An Xue

Copyright © 2021 Lv Ren et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

Liquid sloshing under coupled surge and heave excitations in a rectangular tank has been numerically investigated by applying a Navier–Stokes solver. Fieriest coupled sloshing was further considered, and the internal baffle was expected to suppress the violent sloshing wave. After getting fully validated against available results from the literatures, the numerical model was applied to research coupled sloshing, and both vertical baffle and horizontal baffle have been considered. Due to the strong vortexes created by the sharper corners of the baffles and the reduction of the effective water bulk climbing through the tank walls, the sloshing was dramatically reduced. The increase of the baffle distance away from the tank bottom led to a decrease in the sloshing wave. It was noted that the baffle near the free surface caused the maximal dissipation. The frequency response of the sloshing wave was accordingly illustrated.

1. Introduction

Liquid sloshing widely exists in partially filled tanks encountering external excitations, such as seismic excitation, ship motion, road transportation, and so on. Good prediction of this phenomenon is of great engineering value and critical for the tank design. The triggering condition of the violent sloshing, which can result in strongly localized loads, is the main concern in engineering applications. Most researches aimed at explaining the sloshing wave excited by one-degree-of-freedom excitation and correlated damping approaches; relatively a few papers focused on the coupled ones. As a result of the frequently reported incidents caused by the liquid sloshing [1], it is necessary to study coupled sloshing and find effective ways to mitigate the sloshing energy to ensure structural safety.

Some theoretical approaches such as separation of variables, perturbation, and multimodal methods have been applied to study the linear and nonlinear sloshing waves [2–6]. A third-order nonlinear solution for the surge-excited sloshing was derived by Faltinsen [7]. Benjamin and Ursell [8] obtained a linear solution for heave-excited sloshing. Frandsen [4] applied the perturbation method to identify the responses of the coupled surge-heave excited sloshing, and the excitation conditions of the coupled resonant sloshing were given. In view of the nonlinear sloshing wave, Faltinsen et al. [9–11] did a series of analytical studies. Further work on the strongly nonlinear coupled sloshing is still needed.

If the excitation frequency is close to the system’s natural frequencies, and the excitation amplitude is reasonably large, the sloshing wave is prone to break; those analytical solutions can be completely invalid [12–15]. The numerical methods become popular as they are effective supplements to realize the nonlinear phenomenon. A coupled finite element method (FEM) and boundary element method (BEM) solver was developed to research the incompressible and nonlinear wave motions in confined tanks under external excitations [16,17]. Godderidge et al. [18] applied a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model (Fluent) to investigate nonlinear sloshing. The Navier–Stokes solver was used to predict wave and pressure responses in tanks with various shapes [19].

Except for the high-profile sloshing waves excited by one-degree-of-freedom excitation, the multi-degree-of-freedom excitation is also critical in engineering applications, but relatively less attention has been paid to it. Nevertheless, several studies guided us in realizing this phenomenon. Following the early analytical studies of Faltinsen [2] and Benjamin and Ursell [8], Frandsen [4] gave a third-order solution for coupled surge-heave excited sloshing, which has been verified by Ning et al. [20] through a boundary element numerical model. More complex sloshing excited by two- or three-degree-of-freedom excitations (surge + pitch and surge + pitch + heave) was illustrated by Chen and Nokes [21]. The sloshing waves under other combing forms of external excitations, such as surge + heave + roll and surge + pitch have also been shown by Bai et al. [22] and Luo et al.[23], respectively. They concluded that the most violent case could be aroused when the excitation frequencies of all degrees of freedom were close to the system’s natural frequencies.

In order to reduce the sloshing intensity and ensure the system’s stability, the arrangement of internal baffles has yet been proved to be an effective way [5,24]. Specifically, the vertical and horizontal baffles were applied to suppress nonlinear or breaking sloshing to ensure safety [20,25–28]. Akyildiz and Ünal [29] explained the effectiveness of the vertical and horizontal baffles on reducing nonlinear sloshing under pitch excitations. Xue et al. [30] declared the vertical baffle can shift the system’s natural frequencies away from that of the bare tank, leading to sloshing being off-resonant. Recently, the OpenFOAM numerical model becomes popular [31–33]. Sanapala et al. [34] explained the damping effects of the horizontal baffles on heave-excited sloshing in a rectangular tank. Saghi et al. [35] gave an optimization arrangement of the vertical baffles by the criterion of the entropy generation. The vertical, horizontal, and combined vertical and horizontal baffles have been systematically simulated that have been verified to be useful tools to damp the sloshing wave under seismic excitations [36].

Even though the suppression of sloshing under one-degree-of-freedom excitations has been reported extensively, to the best of our knowledge, less attention has been drawn to the suppression of sloshing under multiple excitations. To address this knowledge gap, the coupled surge-heave excited sloshing was investigated through a Navier–Stokes solver; both vertical and vertical baffles were applied to reduce coupled sloshing. The baffle position and configuration were discussed in detail. The damping mechanism was demonstrated and discussed. The rest of this paper was organized as follows: (1) the numerical methodology and validation were shown in section 2; (2) discussions and results were given in section 3; (3) conclusions and main findings of the work were presented in section 4.

2. Numerical Methodology and Validation

The incompressible Newtonian fluids (water and air) are considered, which can be described through the Navier–Stokes equations. The structure is modeled by the virtual boundary force (VBF) method [12], and the free surface is tracked by the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method [37]. This section is divided into three parts: one introduces the basic governing equations, and other two give the validations.

2.1. Basic Governing Equations

The basic governing equations for water and air are the conservation of mass and momentum equations, namely, the continuity equation and the spatially averaged Navier–Stokes equations (SANS), which are summarized as follows:

where i, j = 1, 2, 3 for three-dimensional flows; ui is the filtered velocity; p stands the filtered pressure; t is the time; ρ is the density; and represents the body force. and denote the molecular viscous and SGS Reynolds stress tensors, respectively. , where is the strain rate; represents the molecular eddy viscosity , where is formulated as the product of the Smagorinsky length scale (0.15), recommended by [37], and the filter width , among which , , and are the grid lengths in the three directions. denotes the reaction force between the fluid and solid. In this study, the translational motions (horizontal and vertical movements) are considered; hence, not only includes the gravitational acceleration but also contains the translational acceleration.

The water-air interface is tracked by the VOF method, which is defined as follows:

where F = (ρ − ρa)/( − ρa) is the volumetric fraction between air and water, which is equal to 0 in air and 1 in water, and ρa and are the densities of air and water, respectively.

The finite difference method is applied to discretize the governing equations on the staggered grid system. The two-projection method is employed to solve the momentum equation as follows:

where is an intermediate velocity at the (n+1)th time step.

The is defined as follows:

In order to guarantee the no-slip velocity at the fluid-solid interface, a new velocity is adopted to replace , which is interpolated by the intermediate velocity in the interior fluid cell and the no-slip velocity on the fluid-solid interface. is taken, for example, as shown in Figure 1, which can be formulated as

Figure 1: Schematical map of the VBF method.

2.2. Coupled Sloshing in a Bare Tank

Sloshing under coupled surge-heave excitations has been numerically investigated by Frandsen [4]. A two-dimensional tank with length L = 1.0 m and mean water depth h = 0.5 m was considered. According to the dispersion relationship , where ,  = 9.81 m/s², and n = 1, 2, 3, the first-order natural frequency ω₁ is equal to 5.3166 rad/s. The horizontal and vertical displacements of the tank followed x(t) = ahcos(ωht) and z(t) = avcos(ωvt), respectively, among which ah = 0.000506 m, ωh = 0.98ω₁, av = 0.2724 m, and ωv = 0.8ω₁. The uniform grid system 200 × 200 is used in the present simulation, with the grid sizes Δx = 0.0025 m and Δz = 0.0005 m.

The time histories of the free surface displacements at the left wall are shown in Figure 2(a). All the three results agree rather well at the beginning nondimensional time t × ω₁ = 50; considering that the surge excitation frequency is close to the first-order natural frequency, both numerical results gradually derivate from the analytical solution with the increasing wave steepness due to the resonance. The phase-plane charts of the analytical solution and present numerical result are presented in Figures 2(b) and 2(c), respectively. The analytical result displays a linear behavior–symmetrical trough and crest. As for the numerical one, there exist apparent differences between trough and crest, and the absolute value of the crest is larger than that of the trough, displaying an obviously nonlinear phenomenon.

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Figure 2: (a) Comparison of the nondimensional time histories of the free surface displacements at the left wall among the analytical solution (solid line), the present numerical result (dash line), and the numerical result of Frandsen [4] (circle). The phase-plane charts: (b) analytical solution and (c) present numerical result.

2.3. Sloshing under Surge Excitation in a Baffled Baffle

Xue et al. [30] conducted a series of table experiments to reveal the damping effects of baffles in suppressing sloshing under surge excitations in a three-dimensional tank with length L = 0.57 m and width W = 0.31 m. A vertical baffle with 0.1 m in height and 0.006 m in thickness was arranged in the middle of the tank in the length direction, as shown in Figure 3. The mean water depth of h = 0.18 m was adopted. The tank displacement at length direction followed the cosine function: x = -acos(ωt), of which the displacement amplitude and external excitation frequency were a = 0.02 m and ω = 6.403 rad/s, respectively.

Figure 3: The sketch of the tank with a vertical baffle.

In the present simulation, the computational domain 0.57 m × 0.31 m × 0.25 m is discretized into 95 × 62 × 50 uniform grids, with the grid sizes Δx = 0.006 m and Δy = Δz = 0.005 m. The dynamic pressures at 0.065 m () and 0.185 m () away from the right tank wall are shown in Figure 4. It can be found that the present numerical results agree rather well with the experimental data of Xue et al. [30], especially in phase. There exist some discrepancies in the peak, which may be mainly caused by the slightly breaking free surface leading to some uncertainty arising from air entrainment.

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Figure 4: Comparison of the dynamic pressures at P1 (a) and P2 (b) in the tank with a vertical baffle between the present numerical result (solid line) and the experimental data of Xue et al. [30] (circle).

3. Results and Discussion

This part discusses the coupled surge-heave excited sloshing in baffled tanks. Two kinds of baffles, namely, vertical and horizontal baffles, are arranged in the tanks with the expectation to reduce the sloshing wave. A three-dimensional rectangular tank with length L, width W, and mean water depth h of 0.49 m, 0.1 m, and 0.3 m, respectively, is used. Therefore, the first-order natural frequency of the partially filled tank is ω₁ = 7.763 rad/s. According to Frandsen and Peng [38] and Jin [39], the most adverse coupled surge-heave excited sloshing is the case that the surge excitation frequency is close to the first-order natural frequency, and the heave excitation is equal to twice of the first-order natural frequency. The horizontal and vertical displacements satisfy the cosine functions x(t) = ahcos(ωht) and z(t) = avcos(ωvt), respectively, where ah = 0.008 m, ωh = ω₁, av = 0.005 m, and ωv = 2.0ω₁.

3.1. Baffle Arrangements

The vertical and horizontal baffles considered in the present study are shown in Figures 5(a) and 5(b), respectively. As for the vertical baffle, Hv and Dv represent the height of the vertical baffle and distance from the upper part of the baffle to the tank bottom (we call it vertical baffle height for short), respectively. Wh denotes the length of the horizontal baffle in the tank’s length direction, which is equal to 0.05 m, and Dh stands for the distance of the horizontal baffle away from the tank bottom. The widths of both baffles are equal to the tank width. One wave gauge, marked by Gauge 1, is arranged at the middle of the left wall in the width direction.

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Figure 5: Baffle configurations in the present study: (a) vertical baffle and (b) horizontal baffle.

Convergent tests have been conducted for different uniform grid sizes (0.0025 m, 0.005 m, and 0.01 m), and the results reveal that grid size 0.005 m is enough to resolve the sloshing wave in baffled tanks. Then, the numerical computation domain 0.49 m × 0.1 m × 0.5 m is discretized into 98 × 20 × 100 uniform grid system, with the grid sizes being Δx = Δy = Δz = 0.005 m. The thickness of the baffle remains unchanged, which is equal to 0.005 m for all cases.

3.2. Damping Effects of Vertical Baffle

The fixed-size vertical baffle is adopted in this section, and its damping effects on coupled sloshing are discussed by changing Dv (Figure 5(a)). Totally, four different Dv are considered, 0.15 m, 0.2 m, 0.25 m, and 0.3 m, resulting in the vertical baffle height/mean water depth ratio Dv/h = 0.5, 0.67, 0.83, and 1.0, respectively. For the case Dv/h = 1.0, it means that the baffle is arranged at the mean water depth.

The time histories of the free surface displacements and corresponding power spectral densities at Gauge 1 for different vertical baffle heights are demonstrated in the left and right columns of Figure 6, respectively. The sloshing wave in the bare tank can reach the tank roof; after the initial 12 s' development, obviously steady-state envelopes appear, which is similar to heave-excited sloshing [4]. When the baffle is introduced, the wave amplitudes have a dramatic decrease with the increasing Dv/h; besides, the wave gradually develops steady-state behaving as a sine function after the initial transient stage. The vertical baffle at the mean water depth is the most effective leading to maximal dissipation.

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Figure 6: (a) Numerical free surface displacement and (b) the corresponding power spectra at Gauge 1 for different vertical baffle heights.

The fast Fourier transform (FFT) technique is applied to identify the frequency responses of the sloshing system, and the corresponding power spectra are illustrated in the right column of Figure 6. Despite the baffle, the dominant peak frequency of all cases is generally in accordance with ω₁, implying the small vertical baffle has less influence on the natural frequency of the baffled system. The energy distributed at different peak frequencies in the bare tank is more scattered than other three cases that may be mainly caused by the wave breaking. The energy focused at the peak frequency decreases with the increasing Dv/h; in other words, the vertical baffle at the free surface has maximal dissipation.

The most violent free surface snapshots of coupled sloshing in the bare tank and tank with a vertical baffle at the mean water depth and corresponding vortexes are demonstrated in Figure 7. As can be found, due to the influence of the sharper corners of the vertical baffle, strong vortexes have been created that can dissipate considerable energy. Besides, the vertical baffle can constrain the motion of the water from one side to the other, resulting in less effective water bulk climbing through the tank walls.

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Figure 7: (a)Free surface snapshots and corresponding vortexes of coupled sloshing in the bare tank (Dv/h = 0.0) and (b) tank with a vertical baffle at the mean water depth (Dv/h = 1.0).

Figure 8 gives the relationship between Dv and peak free surface displacement. The vertical baffle at the mean water depth can lead to maximal dissipation compared with other cases. The dissipation of the vertical baffle for both transient-state and steady-state responses is nearly linear. When Dv exceeds 0.8, the peak free surface displacement decreases inapparently, meaning the damping effect of the vertical baffle can be well when the baffle is arranged around the mean water depth.

Figure 8: The peak free surface displacement response of coupled sloshing for different vertical baffle heights.

3.3. Damping Effects of Horizontal Baffle

The damping effects of horizontal baffles are discussed in this section; the baffle dimension remains unchanged; and only Dh (Figure 5(b)) is systematically varied. Totally, four different Dh are simulated, namely, 0.15 m, 0.2 m, 0.25 m, and 0.3 m, with the corresponding horizontal baffle height/mean water depth ratio being Dh/h = 0.5, 0.67, 0.83, and 1.0, respectively. Similar to the former vertical case Dv/h = 1.0, the present case with Dh/h = 1.0 means that the horizontal baffle is installed at the mean water depth.

Figure 9 gives the time histories of the free surface displacements (9(a)) and corresponding power spectral densities (9(b)) at Gauge 1 for different horizontal baffle heights. For the case that the horizontal baffles are arranged at a lower level (Dh/h = 0.5), the water can hit the ceiling and then begin to break. As the baffle height reaches 0.2 m, correlated to Dh/h = 0.67, the wave decreases obviously compared with the case of Dh/h = 0.5; besides, after the first 5.5 s' transient development, the wave comes to be steady-state. If the baffle height is extensively increased, the response wave can develop into a steady state rapidly. Similar to that of the vertically baffled tank, the horizontal baffle arranged at the mean water depth (Dh/h = 1.0) is also the most effective.

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Figure 9: (a) Numerical free surface displacement and (b) the corresponding power spectra at Gauge 1 for different horizontal baffle heights.

The corresponding power spectra results reveal the dominant peak frequencies of all cases are still ω₁, and the secondary peak frequencies are 2ω₁, meaning the dominant wave is the first mode and the small structure has limited influences on the natural frequency of the system. Obviously, the energy focused at the dominant peak frequency decreases with the increasing Dh/h, among which the horizontal baffles at the free surface can lead to maximal dissipation, and mild wave motion can be aroused. The most violent free surface snapshots and corresponding vortexes for various horizontal baffle heights (Dh/h = 0.67 and 1.0) are demonstrated in Figure 10. Similar to the vertical baffle cases in Figure 7, strong vortexes have been generated by the sharper corners of the baffles that can result in considerable energy dissipation. Moreover, the vertical motion can be constrained by the horizontal baffle at both sides leading to less water can move freely through the tank walls.

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Figure 10: Free surface snapshots and the vortexes of coupled sloshing for various horizontal baffle heights: (a) Dh/h = 0.67 and (b) Dh/h = 1.0.

Figure 11 gives the relationship between Dh and peak free surface displacement. Similar to that in the tank with a vertical baffle, the horizontal baffles at the mean water depth have maximal dissipation, leading to a peak value being about 0.06 m, which is equal to 0.2 h. The dissipation of the horizontal baffles for both transient-state and steady-state responses is generally linear when Dv exceeds 0.5. Overall, from the above two categories of baffles, we can conclude that the baffle around the mean water depth works better than other cases.

Figure 11: The peak free surface displacement response of coupled sloshing for different horizontal baffle heights.

4. Conclusions

A Navier–Stokes model was adopted to study liquid sloshing in a rectangular tank under coupled surge and heave excitations. After full validations against the available numerical, theoretical, and experimental results, the numerical model was used to research the fieriest coupled sloshing where the surge and heave excitation frequencies were the first-order natural frequency and twice of the first-order natural frequency, respectively. In order to reduce the fieriest sloshing wave that was strongly broken, two kinds of baffles, namely, vertical and horizontal baffles, were used to expect to suppress the insecure wave. Four different baffle positions were considered, and the results revealed that the baffle at the mean water depth was the most effective in suppressing the violent sloshing wave. Besides, the horizontal baffles at the mean water depth worked better than the vertical baffle. The damping mechanism was divided into two parts: one was vortex dissipation caused by the sharper corners of the baffles, and the other was the reduction of the effective water bulk climbing through the tank walls.

Data Availability

No data are available on the account of the in-house numerical model.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Authors’ Contributions

Ren Lv and Xin Jin conceptualized the study. Ren Lv developed the methodology. Ren Lv, Yinjie Zou, Jinbo Tang, Dengsong Li, and Mingming Liu performed validation. Ren Lv, Yinjie Zou, and Jinbo Tang performed visualization. Ren Lv and Jinbo Tang wrote the original draft. Xin Jin Mingming Liu reviewed and edited the article. Xin Jin supervised the study.

Acknowledgments

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. U20A20112), Open Fund Projects of State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant no. PCL2020011), State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety (Grant no. HESS-2009), and Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Coastal Disaster and Protection (Grant no. 202005).

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