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Dynamic response characteristics of cylindrical baffled liquid storage tank to the baffle number

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The goal of current study is to numerically investigate the dynamic response characteristics of cylindrical baffled liquid storage tank, which is subjected to a vertical acceleration at boosting, with respect to the number of baffles. Both the storage tank and baffles are modeled as flexible elastic structures, and the suppression of sloshing-induced dynamic responses by baffles are evaluated in terms of the hydrodynamic pressure, the dynamic displacement and stress. Through the numerical experiments, it has been observed that the introduction of baffles to the partially filled liquid tank remarkably decreases the maximum values of displacement and effective stress at both the bottom plate and baffles. And, the variation of displacement and effective stress is stabilized much faster when baffles are installed and the baffle number increases. Thus, it has been verified that the baffled liquid storage tank can be stably and safely applied to the liquid fuel storage tank for various transport vehicles.

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This research was partially supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant No. NRF-2017R1D1A1B03028879). This work was supported by 2019 Hongik University Research Fund.

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  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea

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Jin-Rae Cho received his B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1983. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in Hongik University. His major research field is the computational mechanics in solid/structural mechanics, ocean engineering and materials science.

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Cho, J.R., Lee, S.Y. & Song, M.S. Dynamic response characteristics of cylindrical baffled liquid storage tank to the baffle number. J Mech Sci Technol 33, 5979–5987 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-019-1142-z

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