Effect of Excitation Types on Sloshing Dynamic Characteristics in a Cryogenic Liquid Oxygen Tank
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 32, Issue 6
Abstract
As fluid sloshing usually brings some serious issues on the safe storage and transportation of cryogenic fuels, some in-depth investigations should be conducted to improve its negative effects. In the present study, the fluid sloshing hydrodynamic performance in a cryogenic storage tank is numerically investigated under different types of sloshing excitation. Both the external heat penetration and the internal heat exchange are accounted for in the numerical model. With the external sloshing excitation realized by user-defined functions, the free interface fluctuation is predicted with the volume-of-fluid method. Meanwhile, the treatment of mesh motion is adopted as well. The model validation is made against the related experimental results, and the maximum relative errors are limited in 5.0%. On the basis of the developed model, the sloshing force and moment suffered by the tank are calculated. The pressure variations of vapor and liquid monitors are predicted. Moreover, the interface dynamic response is specially investigated in different sloshing excitations. It shows that the intermittent sloshing excitation has some influence on the hydrodynamic characteristics in the liquid oxygen tank. With some valuable conclusions obtained, the present study is significant to the proper design of tank pressure adjustments by adopting the unconventional sloshing excitation.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the submitted article.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51806235), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20180654), the Project Funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M630625), and the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Technologies in Space Cryogenic Propellants (SKLTSCP1812).
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Received: Feb 11, 2019
Accepted: Jul 8, 2019
Published online: Aug 26, 2019
Published in print: Nov 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Jan 26, 2020
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