The containment system of LNG carrier is a typical large-scale fluid-structure interaction system affected by the marine condition. The structural stability of this system may become serious as the hydrodynamic pressure caused by LNG sloshing flow inc...
The containment system of LNG carrier is a typical large-scale fluid-structure interaction system affected by the marine condition. The structural stability of this system may become serious as the hydrodynamic pressure caused by LNG sloshing flow increases, so hydrodynamic evaluation of this system is prerequisite.
So far, there have been large amount of researches to numerically solve this large-scale fluid-structure interaction(FSI) problems, but these traditional numerical methods require very fine mesh to achieve the reasonable numerical accuracy, against concentrated and volatile hydrodynamic pressure caused by the liquid sloshing. Consequently, the numerical analysis targeting for the long-period time response with the desired numerical accuracy is extremely time-consuming.
The aim of this study is to introduce a new method to analyze the hydroelastic behavior of the insulation containment of LNG carrier by using the global-local numerical approach. The reliability of the presented method is firstly examined, and then its efficiency is demonstrated by presenting that the long-period local responses of two types of cargo systems can be obtained within relatively short CPU time. Moreover, the effects of parameter "cosubmax" and air cushioning effect of natural gas are also examined.