Investigation on the effects of vertical baffles on liquid sloshing based on a particle method

Abstract

This study adopts the numerical simulations of Moving Particle Semi-Implicit Methods (MPS), which are meshless methods based on Lagrange particles. Using Lagrange particle has an advantage that it can avoid numerical dissipation problems without directly discretizing the convection term in the governing equation. First of all, a numerical model of a liquid sloshing tank without baffles is used to confirm the effectiveness of the MPS by comparing the numerical results with the experimental data of Kang and Li. And the pressure curves obtained with MPS method were in good agreement with the experimental findings, which confirmed its effectiveness. On that basis, simulations of liquid sloshing movements with one baffle, two symmetrical baffles, and three baffles are performed, respectively. The results indicate that the addition of vertical baffles in the tanks effectively enhanced the ability to reduce liquid sloshing.