We consider the problem of active reduction of the structural vibrations induced by the sloshing of large masses of fuel inside a partly full tank. The proposed study focuses on an experimental device mimicking an aircraft wing made of an aluminum rectangular plate equipped with piezoelectric patches at the clamped end and with a cylindrical tip-tank, more or less filled with liquid. After deri...

A spectral/hp element code, incorporating a velocity-pressure formulation, is used to simulate free surface flows. Non-linear pressure and velocity boundary conditions are applied on the moving free surface, the tracking of which is facilitated by the implementation of an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation. The derived algorithm is validated by comparing the numerical results evalu...

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 ...

Numerical and analytical results are presented for fluid sloshing, of a two-layer inviscid, incompressible and immiscible fluid with thin layers and a rigid lid, coupled to a vessel which is free to undergo horizontal motion governed by a nonlinear spring. Exact analytical results are obtained for the linear problem, giving the natural frequencies and the resonance structure, particularly betwe...

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a computational technique for the numerical simulation of the equations of fluid dynamics without the use of an underlying numerical mesh. Although originally developed for use in astrophysical gas dynamics, SPH has recently been applied to many other areas of numerical fluid dynamics and materials modelling, several of which have particular relevance to...

SPH is a relatively new, rapidly evolving Lagrangian meshless method that is currently being applied in a large variety of cases, ranging from astrophysics to nuclear engineering. However, most of these cases have been treated so far as single phase cases, therefore limiting both the accuracy of the method and the range of cases that can be solved and importantly the physics captured. However, ...

The pressure-free two-fluid model (PFTFM) is a recent reformulation of the one-dimensional (TFM) for stratified incompressible flow in ducts (including pipes and channels), which pressure eliminated through intricate use volume constraint. disadvantage PFTFM was that volumetric rate had to be specified as an input, even though it unknown quantity case periodic boundary conditions. In this work,...