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A numerical model has been developed to study sloshing of turbulent flow in a tank with elastic baffles. The Moving-Particle Semi-implicit method (MPS) is a kind of meshless Lagrangian calculation method. The large eddy simulation (LES) approach is employed to model the turbulence by using the Smagorinsky Sub-Particle Scale (SPS) closure model. This paper uses MPS-FSI method with LES to simulate the interaction between free surface flow and a thin elastic baffle in sloshing. Then, the numerical model is validated, and the numerical solution has good agreement with experimental data for sloshing in a tank with elastic baffles. Furthermore, under external excitations, the MPS is applied to viscous laminar flow and turbulent flow, with both the deformation of elastic baffles and the wave height of the free surface are compared with each other. Besides, the impact pressure with/without baffles and wave height of free surface are investigated and discussed in detail. Finally, preliminary simulations are carried out in the damage problem of elastic baffles, taking the advantage of the MPS-FSI method in computations of the fluid–structure interaction with large deformation.
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Foundation item: This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51479116 and 11272213).
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Yang, C., Zhang, Hx., Su, Hl. et al. Numerical Simulation of Sloshing Using the MPS-FSI Method with Large Eddy Simulation. China Ocean Eng 32, 278–287 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-018-0029-6
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