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Effect of External Heat Input on Fluid Sloshing Dynamic Performance in a Liquid Oxygen Tank

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In the present study, a numerical model is developed to research the effect of the heat input on fluid sloshing. The volume of fluid method is used to simulate fluid reciprocating motion during sloshing with the mesh motion treatment being coupled. The external sloshing excitation is realized by user-defined functions and the convection thermal boundary condition is adopted to consider the heat exchange between the tank and the external environment. The model validation is made with the relative error being less than five percent. Based on the developed numerical model, the variation of fluid pressure, interface fluctuation, fluid sloshing hydrodynamics and fluid temperature distribution are, respectively, analyzed. Some conclusions are obtained finally. The present study is significant to the fluid sloshing suppression in cryogenic fuel storage tanks.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2019GF11).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Zhan Liu & Yuanliang Liu

  2. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Yuyang Feng & Yanzhong Li

  3. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China

    Jia Yan

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Liu, Z., Feng, Y., Liu, Y. et al. Effect of External Heat Input on Fluid Sloshing Dynamic Performance in a Liquid Oxygen Tank. Int. J. Aeronaut. Space Sci. 21, 879–888 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42405-020-00261-y

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