A numerical study of three-dimensional liquid sloshing in tanks

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3921-3939

  Liu, Dongming ^a   Lin, Pengzhi ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Broken free surface; Liquid sloshing; Navier Stokes equations; Non inertial reference frame; Three dimensional numerical model; VOF method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIQUID SLOSHING; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BROKEN FREE SURFACE; FREE SURFACES; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; NON LINEAR; NON-INERTIAL REFERENCE FRAME; REFERENCE FRAME; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 40449138939     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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