ABSTRACT
Many alarms were signaled regarding serious consequences of liquefaction process of solid goods carried onboard ships regarding the ship’s stability and safety.
In this paper we target the following objectives:
• Simulation of a complex phenomenon such as sloshing which involves massive calculus resources, establishing a numerical simulation strategy;
• given that there are two fluids it is clear that the ANSYS CFX used at simulating the behaviour of the two fluids (sea water and air in case of simulating the ballasted ship for crossing or respectively bauxite and air in case of simulating the ship loaded with cargo), the model of multi phased flow is self-supported;
• given that shifting of the hold’s walls is complex involving pitching and heaving, it is again clear that simulation is performed with the transit module of ANSYS CFX which simulated the effects of the loading points;
• given the intention to analyse the effects of “sloshing” on the ship’s structure, interaction
1 INTRODUCTION
Each type of bulk cargo has its own specific properties influencing their carriage onboard ship. This is related to the International Maritime Code for the Carriage of Bulk Cargo issued by IMO.
