Experimental Studies on Sloshing Mitigation Using Dual Perforated Floating Plates in A Rectangular Tank

The performance of dual perforated floating plates in a rectangular tank is investigated based on the model tests under different external excitations for different filling rates. It is found that dual perforated floating plates in the tank can remarkably mitigate violent resonant sloshing responses compared with the clean tank, especially when the external excitation frequency is in the vicinity of the first-order resonant frequency. Next, the parametric studies based on different filling rates and external excitation amplitudes are performed for the first-order resonant frequencies. The presence of dual perforated floating plates seldom shifts the sloshing natural frequencies. Further,dual perforated floating plates change the sloshing modes from the standing-wave mode in the clean tank to the Utube mode, which can arise from the sloshing reduction to some extent.