Effect of Porous Baffle on Sloshing Pressure Distribution in a Barge Mounted Container Subjected to Wave Excitation

Abstract

An experimental study has been carried out to assess the sloshing pressure expected on the tank walls. Three porosities of 15%, 20.2%, 25.2% and baffle wall placed at center of tank is considered. The sloshing tank is fitted into the freely floating barge of model scale 1:43.The barge is kept inside the wave flume in the beam sea conditions. The effects of wave excitation frequencies and on the sloshing pressure variation have been studied in detail and, the salient results are herein reported.