A Numerical Analysis of Sloshing Fluid in 2D Tanks with Baffles

A tuned liquid damper (TLD) is one possible damping device of tall buildings under wind and earthquake excitations. A 2D tank with a vertically tank bottom-mounted baffle under horizontal excitation is studied in this work. The combination of time-independent finite difference method [1-3] and one-dimensional ghost cell approach was implemented to solve liquid sloshing in the baffled tank. The correlation between the movement of baffles and flow field due to liquid sloshing might to the clue to investigate the evolution of vortices around the baffle tip. We categorize the interaction process of vortices evolution into three phases: (1) Formation of separated shear layer and generation of vortices; (2) Formation of a vertical jet and shedding of vortices; (3) Interaction between shedding vortices and sloshing flow: the generation of snaky flow.