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NUMERICAL STUDY ON BEHAVIOR OF THE TRAPEZOIDAL STORAGE TANK DUE TO LIQUID SLOSHING IMPACT

M. J. KETABDARI

Faculty of Marine Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Department of Civil Engineering, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevari, Iran

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219876213500461Cited by:15 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this paper, a numerical model is developed based on coupled boundary element–finite element methods (BEM–FEM) to minimize liquid sloshing pressure in trapezoidal tank with different sidewall angles. Different geometric shapes such as rectangular, cylindrical, elliptical, spherical and circular conical have already been studied for ship storage tanks by other researchers. In this paper, a new arrangement, i.e., trapezoidal containers is suggested for liquid storage tanks. The tank shape is optimized based on sloshing pressures and forces for a range of frequencies and amplitudes of sway motion and tank configuration. Fluid is considered to be incompressible and inviscid. Therefore, Laplace equation and nonlinear free surface boundary conditions are used to model the sloshing phenomenon. The results validated using available data showed that a new arrangement of trapezoidal storage panels has a better efficiency against sloshing phenomenon than the conventional rectangular tanks.

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Received 28 December 2011

Accepted 28 September 2012

Published: 24 April 2013

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