ABSTRACT
Scientists have put forth a lot of effort to reduce the sloshing impact of fuel in gigantic rocket tanks, but the phenomena in aircrafts is still mostly unknown. The goal of this study was to address the problem of sloshing, which occurs often in aviation fuel tanks. Because it is obvious that sloshing rises as the tank volume grows, we picked the Boeing 747-200, which is one of the largest and longest-serving airplanes ever built. The idea was to add a baffle to the airfoil frame to keep the gasoline from moving about. The simulations were carried out in the Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulator using the Volume OF Fluid (VOF) multiphase model, while the designs and models were built utilizing tools such as Solid Works. After that, comparisons were made between the tanks without baffles and those with baffles to reduce sloshing. In simulations, the latter has demonstrated promising results, and has been able to significantly minimize sloshing. When we added partly horizontal baffles to the original model, the turbulent kinetic energy was lowered by 11.239 percent, according to our simulation. More research may be done to improve the appropriate design and dimensions of the baffles in order to reduce sloshing in the gasoline.
