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    Drag coefficient for porous screen in a non-oscillating perpendicular to plane-in flow
    (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021) Bhandiwad, M.S.; Nasar, T.
    The flow-through porous bodies/structure is one of the more advanced research in the area of energy dissipation in coastal and civil engineering fields. The experiments on the determination of drag coefficient of screens with varying porosities and for the range of flow velocities lead to explore damping ratio in a typical fluid-structure interaction problem. An experimental study has been carried out to assess the drag coefficient of the porous screens as suggested by Keulegan, G. H (1968) [3]. Six different screens with porosities of 4.4%, 6.8%, 9.2% 15%, 20% and 25% are considered. In the experiments, water with a known head from one tank is allowed to flow through a pipe equipped with porous screens into the other tank. Based on the experimental observation, the correlation between Reynolds number and drag coefficient is obtained for all porous screens. The effect of damping nature (damping ratio) of the screen for a particular range of Reynolds number has been explored. As the Reynolds number increases, the drag coefficient decreases with increasing the porosity of the screen. Further, it is understood that the value of the damping ratio decreases with an increasing relative head (H/L). © © 2021 by ASME
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    Effect of the drag coefficient on the performance of vertical porous baffles in a sloshing tank
    (Emerald Publishing, 2025) Bhandiwad, M.S.; Dodamani, B.M.; Deepak, D.
    Purpose: The present work involves analytical and experimental investigation of sloshing in a two-dimensional rectangular tank including the effect of porous baffles to control and/or reduce the wave motion in the sloshing tank. The purpose of this study is to assess the analytical solutions of the drag coefficient effect on porous baffles performance to track free surface motion variation in the sloshing tank by comparison with experimental shake table tests under a range of sway excitation. Design/methodology/approach: The linear second-order ordinary differential equations for liquid sloshing in the rectangular tank were solved using Newmark’s beta method and obtained the analytical solutions for liquid sloshing with dual vertical porous baffles of full submergence depths in a sway-oscillated rectangular tank following the methodology similar to Warnitchai and Pinkaew (1998) and Tait (2008). Findings: The porous baffles significantly reduce wave elevation in the varying filled levels of the tank compared to the baffle-free tank under the range of excitation frequencies. It is observed that the Reynolds number-dependent drag coefficient for porous baffles in the tank can significantly reduce the sloshing elevations and is found to be effective to achieve higher damping compared to the porosity-dependent drag coefficient for porous baffles in the sloshing tank. The analytical model’s response to free surface elevation variations in the sloshing tank was compared with the experiment’s test results. The analytical results matched with shake table test results with a quantitative difference near the first resonant frequency. Research limitations/implications: The scope of the study is limited to porous baffles performance under range sway motion and three different filling levels in the tank. The porous baffle performance includes Reynolds number dependent drag coefficient to explore the damping effect in the sloshing tank. Originality/value: The porous baffles with low-level porosities in the sloshing tank have many engineering applications where the first resonant mode of sloshing in the tank is more important. The porous baffle drag coefficient is an important parameter to study the baffle’s damping effect in sloshing tanks. Hence, obtained analytical solution for liquid sloshing in the rectangular tank with Reynolds number as well as porosity-dependent drag coefficient (model 1) and porosity-dependent drag coefficient porous baffles (model 2) performance is discussed. The model’s test results were validated using a series of shake table sloshing experiments for three fill levels in the tank with sway motion at various excitation frequencies covering the first four sloshing resonant modes. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.