TOTAL FORCE RESPONSE RESULTING FROM LIQUID SLOSHING IN A RIGID CYLINDRICAL TANK WITH A VERTICAL CENTER WALL BAFFLE,

Abstract

As one simple means of avoiding dynamic coupling between sloshing of liquid propellants and automatic control system response, it has been suggested that propellant tanks be compartmented so as to raise the normal sloshing frequencies. The present paper presents measured values of total force response for a rigid cylindrical tank with a vertical center wall (half-tank) excited in translation and in pitching about the liquid center of gravity. The test equipment and procedures are described. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0614686

Entities

People

  • Guido E. Ransleben Jr.
  • H. Norman Abramson

Organizations

  • Southwest Research Institute

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Commercial Equipment
  • Control Systems
  • Couplings
  • Frequency
  • Gravity
  • Liquid Propellants
  • Propellant Tanks
  • Propellants
  • Test Equipment
  • Translations

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Structural Dynamics.