I want to start work on sloshing in a rectangular overhead tank filled with water. Motion in the tank is due to earthquake and I want to simulate it using Ansys 13.0. I'm not able to understand how to start and give udf for this motion?
liquid sloshing is primarly modelled for two cases.One in which tank is provided some reciprocatng motion, this motion you can easily formlate in udf using sinusoidal wave like Asinwt where w is sloshing natural frequency,
other way is to have a sudden braking of tank in motion . this produces a impact hit on front and back side of wall. this you can give using a table where for a certain span of time acceleration becomes negative, then for a very short span it becomes positive followed by a zero. you can import this table in udf.