FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION EFFECT ON LIQUID RETAINING STRUCTURES DUE TO SLOSHING

Fluid-structure interaction problems, which may be categorized into di fferent types, have attracted the attention of engineers because of th eir numerous practical applications. Sloshing of liquid in a liquid fi lled container subjected to external excitations and coupled interacti on between the liquid and container wall due to sloshing is one such p roblem. The focus of the present paper is on the development of a nume rical scheme using finite element technique to calculate the sloshing displacement of liquid and pressure developed due to such sloshing. Th e scheme is extended to study the coupled effect of sloshing and conta iner wall movement due to change in the liquid pressure. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.