Workshop 2:

Sloshing

Acoustics ACTx R170

1 © 2011
2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0
2015
 Goals

Using the AACTx, set up and solve a vibro-acoustic modal analysis of a

water tank.
Problem statement:
• The model consists of a tank structure filled with water,
• Our goal is to calculate the sloshing modes of the system.

2 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 Project Schematic

1. From the project page File menu,

select Restore Archive...

1.

2. Using the dialog box, browse to the

file “sloshing.wbpz”.

2.

3 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 Load ACT Acoustic Extension

3. From the project page Extensions

menu, select Manage Extensions... 3.

4. Using the Extension Manager, load

the “Acoustics” extension.

4.
4 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0
 Preprocessing

5. Double click the “Model” cell to open the

Mechanical application. 5.
When the Mechanical application opens the model will
display in the graphics window and the Acoustics ACT
Extension toolbar displays on the top.

5 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing
6. Select Contacts folder underneath the Connections object in the tree:
You can see that 4 contact regions are predefined. These bonded contacts
are used to connect the beam truss extremities and the water tank.

6.

6 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing

7. Mesh sizing:
Select the Mesh object in the tree: you’ll
see that some meshing controls are already
defined in the model 7.

8. RMB on Mesh and select “Generate

Mesh”

8.

7 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing
9. Insert a “Fixed Support”:
a. Select “Fixed Support” from the Environment toolbar,
b. Select the “Fixed Support” object created in the tree and select the geometry property.
c. “Apply” it to the 4 vertices located at the bottom of the beam truss.

a.

b.

c.

8 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing
10. Define the acoustic domain properties :
a. Select “Acoustic Body” from the Acoustics toolbar.
b. Select the “Acoustic Body” object created in the tree and select the geometry property.
c. “Apply” it to the 4 fluid bodies body.
d. Define the properties of water: density = 1000 kg.m-3, sound speed = 1500 m.s-1.
e. Select “Program Controlled Coupled”.

a.
c.

d.

e.
b.

9 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing
11. Define the free surface:
a. Select “Acoustic Free Surface” from the Acoustics toolbar.
b. Select the “Acoustic Free Surface” object created in the tree and select the geometry
property.
c. “Apply” it to the 4 upper faces of the fluid bodies.

a. b.

c.

10 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing
12. Define the fluid-structure interface:
a. Select “FSI Interface” from the Acoustics toolbar.
b. Select the “Acoustic FSI Interface” object created in the tree and select the geometry
property.
c. “Apply” it to the 8 faces located at the interface between the fluid bodies and the solid
bodies.

b.
a.

c.

11 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 . . . Preprocessing
13. Define an acceleration:
a. Select “Acceleration (Modal)” from the Acoustics toolbar.
b. Select the “Acceleration ” object created in the tree and define acceleration components:
• X Component = 0 m.s-2
• Y Component = 9.81 m.s-2
• Z Component = 0 m.s-2

b.

a.

Note: we use the acceleration object of the Acoustics toolbar because the standard acceleration of
the Environment toolbar can not be inserted in modal analyses.
12 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0
 . . . Preprocessing
14. Define modal analysis settings:
a. Select “Analysis Settings” in the tree,
b. Define 12 modes to find between 0.1 Hz and 1e8 Hz,
c. Select “Unsymmetric” for “Solver type”.

b.

a.

c.

13 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 Solution

15. Solve the model

15.

14 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 Results
16. Select the “Solution” object in the tree and look at the calculated
eigen frequencies in the tabular data window.

16.

15 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0

 Results
17. Select all the lines in the tabular data
window and use RMB to create mode shape
results.

18. Evaluate all results:

17.

18.

19. Animates selected mode shape:

19.

16 © 2014 ANSYS, Inc. September 21, 2015 Release 17.0