0045-7949/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2012.02.005 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 10 82544024. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.R. Shao [email protected] (G.R. Liu), [email protected] Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a popular meshfree, Lagrangian particle method with attractive features in modeling liquid sloshing dynamics, which is ...

Car body acceleration is an important factor affecting track safety and ride comfort, which are two primary aspects of railway systems. Though track level is an important source of wagon body acceleration, no quantitative relation between them is available and the aim of this paper is to propose a method to address this issue. To do so, car body acceleration is determined using a 10 DOF simulat...

Motivated by recent experiments on the hovering of passive bodies, we demonstrate how a simple shape-changing body can hover or ascend in an oscillating background flow. We study this ratcheting effect through numerical simulations of the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations at intermediate Reynolds number. This effect could describe a viable means of locomotion or transport in such environm...

In this investigation the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are modified to account for variable density and viscosity of the two-fluids flow (i.e. water-air), assuming both fluids compressible. By introducing a preconditioner, the governing equations in terms of primitive variables are solved for both fluids in a unified manner. The non-conservative implicit Split Coefficient Ma...

Abstract With development of the heavy-haul railway, increased axle load and traction weight bring a significant challenge for service performance safety maintenance railway track. Conducting defect recognition on concrete sleepers ballast using big data is vital. This paper focused detection absent sleeper support in ballasted track with an emphasis integration model-based data-driven methods....

The coupled motion between shallow water sloshing in a moving vessel with baffles and the vessel dynamics is considered. Here the vessel dynamics is restricted to horizontal motion such as in Tuned Liquid Dampers. It was shown by Turner et al. [20] (Phys. Fluids (2013) 25(10) 112102) that partitioning a moving vessel into n separate compartments leads to an interesting dynamical behaviour of th...

Water tank is used extensively for storing water, inflammable liquids and other chemicals. Generally, to provide water at large, tank is supported on frame or shaft (a vertical cylindrical shell). The staging with a single row of columns placed straight (vertical) along the periphery of circle or shaft, are generally adopted for elevated water tanks to support the tank container. Apart from ver...

In marine storage and transportation, the sloshing of liquid oxygen disturbs thermodynamic equilibrium induces stress on tank walls. Numerous problems are associated with mechanism demand a detailed investigation. this study, numerical model is developed by coupling Eulerian framework algebraic interface area density (AIAD) method while considering interphase drag force to investigate thermal b...