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Fundamental validation of the finite volume particle method for 3D sloshing dynamics
Author(s) -
Guo Lian Cheng,
Zhang Shuai,
Morita Koji,
Fukuda Kenji
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.2490
Subject(s) - slosh dynamics , mechanics , free surface , computational fluid dynamics , finite volume method , volume of fluid method , particle (ecology) , flow (mathematics) , dynamics (music) , volume (thermodynamics) , physics , materials science , classical mechanics , geology , acoustics , thermodynamics , oceanography
The use of the finite volume particle (FVP) method is validated for three‐dimensional sloshing dynamics with a free surface by comparing with results from experiments. In the first part, two typical sloshing experiments for a single liquid phase are simulated, and slosh characteristics that include the free surface behavior and hydrodynamic pressure are reported. Moreover, the influences of the circular wall geometry and spatial resolution in the simulation are studied in a sensitivity analysis. In the second part, two sloshing problems with solid bodies are simulated to preliminarily verify the applicability of the FVP method to three‐dimensional solid bodies' motion in liquid flow. Good agreement between simulations and corresponding experiments indicates that the present FVP method well reproduces three‐dimensional sloshing behavior. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.