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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,977 Views
17 Pages

19 May 2022

Liquid sloshing in ship tanks would have a direct effect on ship dynamic stability, and thus is of great importance for navigation safety. To calculate the sloshing-induced force on real ship tanks, this paper presents an approach to numerically simu...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,380 Views
29 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Violent Sloshing Flows Using a Single Degree of Freedom Approach

  • Jon Martinez-Carrascal,
  • L. M. González-Gutiérrez and
  • Javier Calderon-Sanchez

6 August 2022

In this work, the most fundamental aspects of an aeronautical sloshing problem have been studied using an alternative and simplified model. This model consists of a single degree of freedom version of the original problem which keeps the essence of t...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,473 Views
17 Pages

1 June 2020

Nowadays, the use of baffle plates is anticipated to be one of potential devices used to dampen the sloshing of propellant in rocket tanks. However, some of previous studies reported that the use of a baffle plate may cause larger pressure fluctuatio...

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  • Open Access
3,687 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2024

The nonlinear sloshing of an incompressible fluid with irrotational flow in a complicated-shape tank due to horizontal excitation is studied with a semi-analytical method proposed in this study. In this method, the velocity potential function of a li...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,510 Views
12 Pages

Balance requires constant adjustments in muscle activation to attain force steadiness. Creating appropriate training can be challenging. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 2 weeks of front squat instability training using a water...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,667 Views
28 Pages

13 February 2023

The large-amplitude sloshing behavior of liquid hydrogen in a tank for heavy-duty trucks may have adverse effects on the safety and stability of driving. With successful application of liquid hydrogen in the field of new energy vehicles, the coupled...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,721 Views
17 Pages

Numerical Study on Behaviors of the Sloshing Liquid Oxygen Tanks

  • Hanyue Zhang,
  • Hong Chen,
  • Xu Gao,
  • Xi Pan,
  • Qingmiao Huang,
  • Junlong Xie and
  • Jianye Chen

4 September 2022

In marine storage and transportation, the sloshing of liquid oxygen disturbs the thermodynamic equilibrium and induces stress on tank walls. Numerous problems are associated with the sloshing mechanism and demand a detailed investigation. In this stu...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,710 Views
31 Pages

The Effect of Porous Media on Wave-Induced Sloshing in a Floating Tank

  • Wen-Huai Tsao,
  • Ying-Chuan Chen,
  • Christopher E. Kees and
  • Lance Manuel

31 May 2022

Placing porous media in a water tank can change the dynamic characteristics of the sloshing fluid. Its extra damping effect can mitigate sloshing and, thereby, protect the integrity of a liquefied natural gas tank. In addition, the out-of-phase slosh...

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  • Open Access
193 Views
27 Pages

25 December 2025

The strong vibration excited by the tank-liquid sloshing of the field sprayer can result in uneven spraying, vehicle-body cartwheel, and the break of the boom during running process. So, it is crucial to investigate the stability of a field-sprayer b...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,017 Views
21 Pages

This study aimed to validate the single-phase and two-phase smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) on sloshing in a tank. There have been many studies on sloshing in tanks based on meshless particle methods, but few researchers have used a large numbe...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,768 Views
26 Pages

Sloshing of liquefied bulk granular cargoes weakens the stability of cargo carriers when at sea. Using the horizontal rectangle baffle is a promising way to restrain its sloshing motion. But the location height and optimal baffle area rate to achieve...

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  • Open Access
1,354 Views
19 Pages

27 January 2025

Large storage tanks situated in coastal areas are vulnerable to environmental hazards, with earthquakes being one of the most destructive forces threatening their structural safety. Additionally, differential settlement can significantly alter condit...

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  • Open Access
197 Views
20 Pages

Nonlinear Control Design for a PVTOL UAV Carrying a Liquid Payload with Active Sloshing Suppression

  • Manuel A. Zurita-Gil,
  • Gerardo Ortiz-Torres,
  • Felipe D. J. Sorcia-Vázquez,
  • Jesse Y. Rumbo-Morales,
  • José J. Gascon Avalos,
  • Juan R. Reynoso-Romo,
  • Julio C. Rosas-Caro and
  • Jorge A. Brizuela-Mendoza

The increase in the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for liquid transport tasks, such as agricultural spraying, results in significant stability challenges. The free movement of the liquid, known as sloshing, generates unpredictable forces t...

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  • Open Access
303 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Properties of a Rectangular Cantilever Aqueduct with a Baffle Considering Soil–Structure Interaction

  • Fangzheng Hao,
  • Shuo Xu,
  • Ying Sun,
  • Zhenyuan Gu,
  • Xun Meng,
  • Zhong Zhang and
  • Jue Wang

28 November 2025

Rectangular aqueducts are critical building structures in large-scale water conveyance systems used worldwide. Liquid sloshing can produce hydrodynamic forces that threaten structural safety and long-term performance. This study analytically investig...

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  • Open Access
1,219 Views
13 Pages

Damping of Liquid Sloshing Using Hydrophobic Walls in the Off-Impulse Regime

  • R. C. Cruz-Gómez,
  • Anne Cros,
  • C. O. Monzón and
  • L. E. Capetillo-Peréz

6 March 2025

In this experimental work, sloshing tests were performed with containers filled with water at 50% of their volume capacity. Two boundary conditions were considered: uncoated containers and containers with hydrophobic coated walls. In addition, severa...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,909 Views
13 Pages

21 November 2022

The frequency characteristics of free surface elevation time histories of shallow-water sloshing in a three-dimensional rectangular tank is presented. The numerical model for sloshing motion uses an accurate velocity potential Boussinesq-type equatio...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,239 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Bottom Geometry on the Natural Sloshing Motion of Water inside Tanks: An Experimental Analysis

  • Antonio Agresta,
  • Nicola Cavalagli,
  • Chiara Biscarini and
  • Filippo Ubertini

10 January 2021

The present work aims at understanding and modelling some key aspects of the sloshing phenomenon, related to the motion of water inside a container and its effects on the substructure. In particular, the attention is focused on the effects of bottom...

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  • Open Access
724 Views
33 Pages

Impact of Fluid Sloshing on BOG Generation in Type B LNG Tanks During Ship Emergency Stops

  • Haikang Zhao,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Jiachen Chen,
  • Xigang Pu,
  • Sicong Wang,
  • Yuhao Yuan and
  • Ang Sun

4 November 2025

The safe and efficient transport of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is critically dependent on understanding fluid dynamics within cargo tanks, which directly influence structural integrity and operational safety. Study employs the Volume of Fluid (VOF)...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,596 Views
18 Pages

24 July 2020

Prediction of sloshing loads, which is one of the most important issues in the design of LNG carriers, has usually been carried out by experiments. When designing a 6-DOF platform equipment used for sloshing experiments, it should target a system con...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,745 Views
16 Pages

Capturing the Motion of the Free Surface of a Fluid Stored within a Floating Structure

  • Roman Gabl,
  • Jeffrey Steynor,
  • David I. M. Forehand,
  • Thomas Davey,
  • Tom Bruce and
  • David M. Ingram

29 December 2018

Large floating structures, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships, are subject to both internal and external fluid forces. The internal fluid forces may also be detrimental to a vessel’s stability and cause excessive loading regimes when slo...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,194 Views
14 Pages

Numerical Study of Highly Viscous Fluid Sloshing in the Real-Scale Membrane-Type Tank

  • Shuo Mi,
  • Zongliu Huang,
  • Xin Jin,
  • Mahdi Tabatabaei Malazi and
  • Mingming Liu

7 November 2019

The highly viscous liquid (glycerin) sloshing is investigated numerically in this study. The full-scale membrane-type tank is considered. The numerical investigation is performed by applying a two-phase numerical model based on the spatially averaged...

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  • Open Access
409 Views
22 Pages

4 December 2025

Current upper-limb rehabilitation robots primarily focus on training tasks involving free movements or static interactions with rigid objects. These paradigms lack simulation of complex object manipulation tasks encountered in daily life, thereby lim...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,634 Views
24 Pages

Seismic Analysis of Baffle-Reinforced Elevated Storage Tank Using Finite Element Method

  • Mohammad Hajmohammadian Baghban,
  • Seyed Vahid Razavi Tosee,
  • Kiyanets A. Valerievich,
  • Leila Najafi and
  • Iman Faridmehr

The sloshing phenomenon is an important field of fluid dynamics in liquid storage tanks under earthquake excitation. When the sloshing frequency gets close to the liquid tank’s natural frequency, the resulting resonance could lead to instabilit...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,262 Views
18 Pages

The performance of sprayer UAVs largely depends on accurate trajectory control while spraying. A large amount of a liquid payload may create a sloshing effect inside the liquid tank, which may occur largely during hazardous phenomena, such as wind gu...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,622 Views
11 Pages

12 January 2021

In this paper a novel hybrid piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy harvester for civil engineering low-frequency sloshing environment is reported. The architecture, fabrication and characterization of the harvester are discussed. The hybrid energy...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,711 Views
16 Pages

Analytical and Numerical Model of Sloshing in a Rectangular Tank Subjected to a Braking

  • Oana-Maria Balaş,
  • Cristian Vasile Doicin and
  • Elena Corina Cipu

13 February 2023

This paper examines the movement of waves that occur in a fuel tank—both with and without a wave breaker—when a car is travelling at a constant speed and then suddenly brakes. This phenomenon is known as slosh noise, and the paper present...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,977 Views
37 Pages

21 April 2024

Pump-turbines experience complex flow phenomena and fluid–structure interactions during transient operations, which can significantly impact their stability and performance. This paper presents a comprehensive field test study of the pump mode...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,590 Views
24 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Analyses of the Sloshing in a Fuel Tank

  • Emma Frosina,
  • Adolfo Senatore,
  • Assunta Andreozzi,
  • Francesco Fortunato and
  • Pino Giliberti

17 March 2018

The sloshing of fuel inside the tank is an important issue in aerospace and automotive applications. This phenomenon, in fact, can cause various issues related to vehicle stability and safety, to component fatigue, audible noise, vibrations and to th...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,919 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2023

In this paper, the impact process of a large LNG tank container for trains was studied by performing experiments and numerical simulations. Impact force with induced stress and deformation on the container especially on the frame was investigated and...

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  • Open Access
1,444 Views
19 Pages

8 December 2024

Autonomous control of lunar landers is essential for successful space missions, where precision and efficiency are crucial. This study presents a novel control strategy that leverages proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controllers to manage...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,809 Views
10 Pages

26 April 2019

In this manuscript, the optimal design of geometry for a forced sloshing in a rigid container based on the entropy generation minimization (EGM) method is presented. The geometry of the vessel considered here is two dimensional rectangular. Incompres...

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  • Open Access
2,589 Views
17 Pages

Unsteady Linearisation of Bed Shear Stress for Idealised Storm Surge Modelling

  • Pieter C. Roos,
  • Giordano Lipari,
  • Chris Pitzalis,
  • Koen R. G. Reef,
  • Gerhardus H. P. Campmans and
  • Suzanne J. M. H. Hulscher

21 October 2021

The modelling of time-varying shallow flows, such as tides and storm surges, is complicated by the nonlinear dependency of bed shear stress on flow speed. For tidal flows, Lorentz’s linearisation circumvents nonlinearity by specifying a (steady) fric...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
13,798 Views
24 Pages

This study focuses on tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) using liquids with different characteristics optimized with the adaptive harmony search algorithm (AHS). TLDs utilize the characteristic features of the liquid to absorb the dynamic forces entering th...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,972 Views
16 Pages

19 December 2022

This research studies how the angle and dimensions of a single baffle affect the dynamics of a fluid in a closed rectangular tank under an accelerated harmonic vibration in resonance. A half-filled non-deformable rectangular tank with a single center...

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  • Open Access
1,709 Views
24 Pages

26 April 2024

The efficient testing and validation of the high-voltage (HV) insulation of small-outline integrated circuit (SOIC) packages presents numerous challenges when trying to achieve faster and more accurate processes. The complex behavior these packages w...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,247 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2024

Historical seismic events have repeatedly highlighted the susceptibility of above-ground liquid storage steel tanks, underscoring the critical need for their proper design to minimize potential damage due to seismic forces. A significant failure mech...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,906 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2019

The primary barrier in contact with LNG (Liquefied natural gas) cargo is manufactured from stainless steel, and has a corrugated membrane structure due to thermal deformation caused by extreme temperature differences. Because the primary barrier is t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,263 Views
25 Pages

Stability and Control During Vertical Take-Off and Landing: The Impact of Aerodynamics

  • Tudorel-Petronel Afilipoae,
  • Pedro Simplicio,
  • Samir Bennani and
  • Hans Strauch

12 December 2024

Under the European Space Agency (ESA) support, INCAS has taken the initiative to develop an Ascent and Descent Autonomous Maneuverable Platform (ADAMP) which will serve as an in-flight testing platform for reusable space technologies. This paper is f...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,343 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2024

The current investigation delved into the seismic analysis, design intricacies, and assessment of the response of elevated steel containment tanks when supported by concentrically braced frames. The primary focus was placed on comprehending the behav...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,735 Views
13 Pages

On Numerical Models for Cube Drop Test of Bladder Fuel Tank for Aeronautical Applications

  • Domenico Cristillo,
  • Francesco Di Caprio,
  • Claudio Pezzella,
  • Carmen Paciello,
  • Simone Magistro,
  • Luigi Di Palma and
  • Marika Belardo

For some categories of aircraft, such as helicopters and tiltrotors, fuel storage systems must satisfy challenging crash resistance requirements in order to reduce or eliminate the possibility of fuel fires and thus increase the chances of passenger...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,447 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2020

Understanding the behaviour of water filled bodies is important from an applied engineering perspective when understanding the sea-keeping performance of certain floating platforms and vessels. Even by assuming that the deformation is negligible smal...