ABSTRACT

A liquid sloshing experimental system driven by a wave-maker is developed in the State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering at Sichuan University of China to study the sloshing of a two-liquid system with free surface in a rectangular tank. The chosen immiscible fluids are fresh water and 0# diesel oil from bottom to top in the tank. A series of laboratory experiments are conducted in the experimental rig to estimate the pressure distribution on the tank walls and the interfacial wave displacement by changing external excitation frequency of the shaking table. Comparisons are also presented with results from an in-house CFD code with improved volume of fluid (IVOF) tracking of the interface and free surface. Very good agreements are also obtained in the comparison.

Keywords:
interfacial wave, investigation, external excitation frequency, wave elevation, elevation, engineering, probe 3, amplitude, upstream oil & gas, excitation frequency
Subjects:
Information Management and Systems
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2013. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
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