FSI MODELING OF LIQUID SLOSHING IN A FLEXIBLE FLOATING TANK UNDER REGULAR WAVE EFFECT
Résumé
This paper presents a Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) numerical study of a deformable two-dimensional floating rectangular tank partially filled with water and subjected to a regular wave effect. It is based on the coupling of a two-phase flow solver from the OpenFOAM code, based on the Finite Volume Method (FVM), and an elastic solid solver from the FEniCS code, based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). The two solvers are coupled using the preCICE library for the Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problem. The Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation is adopted for the two-phase Navier-Stokes equations in a moving fluid domain. An implicit coupling scheme is used to solve the FSI problem. The effect of swell excitation is considered by introducing a source term into the equations governing the fluid and the solid. The obtained results show that for the studied case, the tank walls' flexibility increases the sloshing amplitude and the fluctuations at the air-liquid interface, and causes a phase shift in the free surface response compared to the rigid case. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) applied to the time responses of the free surface and the tank wall highlights that the obtained results give a good agreement with the analytical solution.
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