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Liquid dynamics sloshing in cylindrical containers: A 3D free-surface reconstruction dataset
Alessia Simonini1,2, Donato Fontanarosa3, Maria Grazia De Giorgi3
1EA department, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Waterloosesteenweg 72, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium.
Abstract:
The present dataset provides experimental measurements of the 3D liquid/gas interface shape during lateral water sloshing in a partially filled cylindrical container. The measurement technique used to acquire the data is the Reference Image Topography [1] based on a Synthetic Schlieren Free-Surface Reconstruction method [2]. A modified version of the processing algorithm has been used. This one transforms the coordinate system from Cartesian to polar so that the computational domain only includes the area where the fluid is present. Moreover, it uses the conservation of the fluid volume into the investigated area that permits to obtain the absolute height. This allows overcoming the strong limitation of the RIT method regarding the inability to detect changes of the mean surface height, at the condition that the complete and only liquid domain recorded in the images is used in the inversion algorithm. The complete details of the post-processing of the images is reported in the paper associated to this DIB [3]. The dataset includes the external excitation history and maps of the liquid/gas interface acquired during the experiment. These data are considered fundamental for the validation of CFD simulations of sloshing and of simplified theoretical models. A set of 12 test cases are reported in this DIB. A part of these test cases refers to steady state sloshing and a part to sloshing damping. In the last cases, also the 3D map of damping coefficients, calculated using the logarithmic decrement method, is provided.
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