简介:Sloshingphenomenonintheliquidcargocarriershascaughttheattentionofresearchersastheinteractionbetweenthesloshingwavesandstructureisoneofthekeypointanddifficultyinthestudyofsloshing.Inthispaper,wecapturedthefreesurfacewithavolumeoffluid(VOF)methodandthencalculatedthemotionsandresponsesofthestructurebyadoptingtheReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)equationsforthewholefluiddomain.Withtheuseofuserdefinedfunctions(UDF)inFluent,theinteractionbetweenfluidandstructurewasthensimulated.Asareasonablesimplification,theauthorsstudiedtheresponseofasinglecantileverinatankundersloshingloads;Furtherstudyshouldpaymoreattentiontothemechanismsofinteractionbetweensloshingwavesandelasticstructures.
简介:Thispaperpresentsanimprovedunstructuredgridimmersedboundarymethod.Theadvantagesofbothimmersedboundarymethodandbodyfittedgridswhicharegeneratedbyunstructuredgridtechnologyareusedtoenhancethecomputationefficiencyoffluidstructureinteractionincomplexdomain.TheNavier-StokesequationwasdiscretizedspaciallywithcollocatedfinitevolumemethodandEulerimplicitmethodintimedomain.TherigidbodymotionwassimulatedbyimmersedboundarymethodinwhichthefluidandrigidbodyinterfaceinteractionwasdealtwithVOS(volumeofsolid)method.AnewVOScalculationmethodbasedongraphwaspresentedinwhichbothimmersedboundarypointsandcrosspointswerecollectedinarbitraryordertoformagraph.Themethodisverifiedwithflowpastoscillatingcylinder.
简介:Ananalyticalstudywaspresentedonactivecontrolofsoundtransmissionintoavibro-acousticenclosurecomprisingtwoflexibleplates.Twotypesofactuatorswereused,i.e.acousticactuatoranddistributedleadzirconatetitanatepiezoelectric(PZT)actuatorinsteadofpointforceactuator.Usingthemodalacoustictransferimpedance-mobilitymatrices,theexcitationandinteractioninthecoupledsoundtransmissionsystemcanbedescribedwithclearphysicalsignificance.Withthecontrolsystemdesignedtogloballyreducethesoundfield,differentcontrolsystemconfigurationswereconsidered,includingthestructuralactuatorontheincidentplate,actuatoronthereceivingplate,acousticactuatoronthecavity,andtheircombinations.Theeffectivenessandperformanceofthecontrolstrategycorrespondingtoeachsystemconfigurationwerecomparedanddiscussed.Theroleandcontrolmechanismofeachtypeofactuatorwereofparticularinterest.Itwasshownthattheincidentplateactuatoriseffectiveincontrollingthecavity-dominatedmodesandthestructuralmodesdominatedbytheincidentplateandreceivingplate.Twomaincontrolmechanismsareinvolvedinthiscontrolconfiguration,i.e.,modalsuppressingandmodalrearrangement.Forcontrolsystemconfigurationwithonlyacousticactuatorintheenclosure,themechanisminvolvedinthisarrangementispurelymodalsuppression.Desirableplacementsofstructuralactuatorsintermsoftotalpotentialenergyreductionwerealsodiscussed.