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Numerical investigation on the effects of wave suppression baffles in vehicle-integrated water tanks

2023
期刊 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering
The danger of liquid sloshing in pump-driven water tanks has significantly increased due to the growing need to integrate a water tank into new energy vehicles. The best approach to reduce the negative effects of liquid sloshing is to add baffles to the integrated water tank. The addition of baffles to integrated water tanks to reduce liquid sloshing is investigated in this study using the discontinuous mesh approach and the coupled level set and volume of fluid (CLSVOF) method. Comparative experiments and simulations are used to confirm the reliability of the method. In this study, the length ratio, distance to initial free surface, and angle of the added baffle are taken into consideration. The free surface height, magnitude velocity, turbulence energy, and flow field are used to assess the impact of the baffle on the suppression of liquid sloshing. The addition of baffles can improve the liquid sloshing phenomenon caused by the pump excitation conditions in the integrated water tank, increase the volume suction of liquid, inhibit the height of the wave and reduce the liquid flow rate in the tank. Also, at the depth where the baffle has the most obvious suppression effect, the deeper the baffle, the lower the height of the free surface in the tank and the lower the average magnitude velocity in the tank cross-section. The baffle reduces the height of the free surface in the tank to 6.39 mm, and the magnitude of maximum average velocity in the tank cross-section is reduced to 0.12 m/s.