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Sloshing VesselSloshing VesselCAE ExampleCAE ExampleSloshing VesselSloshing VesselCAE ExampleCAE Example
Martin WaltersMartin WaltersMartin WaltersMartin Walters
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Storage Vessel Design
Effects of FPSO Movement
• Liquid-gas interface unstable
• Need to reduce sloshing to maintain separation efficiency
• What stresses are seen by components?
– Can we still use standard baffle configurations?
– Bolts and welds
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– Bolts and welds
– Fatigue loading
• Not something that’s easy to do experimentally!
– Potentially dangerous
– Significant cost of rig & instrumentation
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Objectives
• Design study for a 12m long storage tank on
board an FPSO
• Design considerations:
– Internal baffle arrangement to reduce sloshing
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– Operational load characteristics
• Sloshing loading
• Fatigue
• Welds and bolts
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Vessel motion
• Inertial reference frame
– Ship moving at fixed speed
– No waves or swell
– No acceleration force
– No sloshing!x
y
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x’y’
z’
• Non-Inertial Frame
– Bow of the ship in a storm
– 3 Rotations• Roll, Pitch & Yaw
– 3 Linear Accelerations• Surge, Sway & Heave
– Sloshing expected!
z
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Methodology
• Hydrodynamic analysis with a given sea state provides
motion profile for CFD and FEA
• Velocity motion profiles applied using Six Degree Of
Freedom model in CFD solver
– accelerations could be applied directly to momentum
equations
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equations
• Volume of Fluid model used to model gas-liquid interface in
CFD solver
• Transient one-way FSI, surface pressures mapped from
CFD analysis to FEA model
• Displacement profiles from Hydrodynamic solver applied to
FEA model to account for inertia of solid structure
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Simulation Process
Step Solver Design Consideration Output Data
1 Hydrodynamic
Asses ship hydrodynamic
response to different sea
states
Motion Profiles:
Velocities for CFD
Displacements for FEA
2Computational
Fluid Dynamics
Analyse baffle design to
assess sloshing
Surface Pressure
Profiles
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2Fluid Dynamics assess sloshing Profiles
3Structural
Finite Element
Analyse stresses to look at
welds and bolt arrangements
and fatigue loading
Velocity
ProfilesPressures &
Displacements
Hydrodynamics CFD FEA
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Workbench Project
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Hydrodynamic Analysis
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• Motion Profile Output for all six motions, used for CFD
and Structural FE models
• Displacements, Velocities and Accelerations
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Surface Pressure
Profile used for
Structural model
Computational Fluid
Dynamics Analysis
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Structural FEA
• AQWA stuff to get data • Pressure Loading ONLY
• Fluid inertia considered
• Fixed constraints to feet
• Inertia of solid structure ignored
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Structural FEA
with CFD Free Surface
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Conclusions
• High fidelity loading conditions for structural
model with design information at each step
• Further work:
– Structural FEA sub model to look at specific
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problems
– Fatigue analysis
– Different sea state conditions
– Design Exploration and Optimisation Studies
within Workbench