Sloshel is a joint industry project which has been undertaken to study full scale tests of real membrane containment systems subjected to the action of breaking waves representing sloshing impacts in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) tanks of LNG carriers or Floating LNG terminals. This paper focuses on the modeling of a full scale breaking wave in a flume, its impact on the Sloshel Mk III test panel, the response of the panel, and the reconciliation of the model results with the measured data and observations. A CFD model of the wave was developed and wave height, breaking characteristics and pressures induced on the panel are compared with measurements. A finite element model was used to investigate deformations of the small corrugations induced by the pressures.
Sloshel is a joint industry project, which has been undertaken to study full scale tests of real membrane containment systems subjected to the action of breaking waves representing sloshing impacts in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) tanks of LNG carriers or Floating LNG terminals. The waves were generated in a water flume using a wave focusing method. Phase two of the project is overviewed in Brosset, Mravak, Kaminski, Collins, and Finnigan (2009). As part of the third phase of this project, an instrumented panel of the Mk III containment system was subjected to an extensive program of testing and part of this phase of the work is presented in this paper. The reader is referred to Bogaert, Brosset and Kaminski (2010) for a description of the Mk III containment system. This paper focuses on the modeling of a full scale breaking wave in the flume, its impact on the Sloshel Mk III test panel, the response of the panel, and the reconciliation of the model results with the measured data and observations.
