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Tutorial 23 - SPH Modelling

This tutorial demonstrates simulating sloshing in a fluid-filled tank using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in Abaqus. It describes: 1) Importing geometry of a block (fluid) and cube (tank), merging them and assigning material properties. 2) Creating steps, contacts, boundary conditions and loads to simulate gravity and fluid motion. 3) Meshing the model and converting the block to SPH particles. 4) Submitting the job and post-processing results by viewing particle velocity over time.

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Tutorial 23 - SPH Modelling

This tutorial demonstrates simulating sloshing in a fluid-filled tank using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in Abaqus. It describes: 1) Importing geometry of a block (fluid) and cube (tank), merging them and assigning material properties. 2) Creating steps, contacts, boundary conditions and loads to simulate gravity and fluid motion. 3) Meshing the model and converting the block to SPH particles. 4) Submitting the job and post-processing results by viewing particle velocity over time.

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Tutorial 23:

Sloshing in a tank modelled using


SPH as an example
Name
This tutorial gives a basic introduction to SPH modelling in Abaqus CAE. The
tutorial will take you through a basic model of g forces acting on a fluid in a typical
tank. Prior knowledge of Abaqus is assumed, if there is concern about some
steps more information is given in previous tutorials.

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1.

Geometry Import & part instancing

Import the part Geometry, tutorial23.step, selecting the default for create part

This contains a block and cube made up six faces, rename the block to
something related to fluid; it will represent water in this example. The next step is
to combine the faces into a new part to form a box.
First instance the parts in the assembly module, and then once the parts are
instanced select the merge/cut from the instance drop down menu

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Then using the default settings, renaming if desired, continue with the merging.

Select all six faces individually and merge the parts

2.

Material and section properties

Go to the property module and create the following materials


Water:
Mechanical properties:
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Eos: type = Us Up, c0 = 1483, s = 0, Gamma0 = 0

Dynamic viscosity = 0.001

General properties:
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Density = 1000

Aluminium:
Mechanical properties:
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Elasticity-Elastic: Youngs Modulus = 70e9, Poissons ratio = 0.3

General properties:
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Density = 2500

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Then create a default solid homogeneous section for water and assign the
section to the block. Then for the aluminium selection, select the shell option
with width of 0.002m and highlight the box

Note: When it comes to assigning sections ignore the 2D squares that merged
into the box as they are no longer counted as part of the assembly.

3.

Creating the steps

Go to the step module and create two new steps, for all steps in the model use
the step option of dynamic, explicit

For the first step make the time period 0.5 seconds and 1 for the second step

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4.

Contacts

In the interaction module create a default all with self interaction and default
global interaction property.

5.

Appling loads & boundary conditions

Go to the load module and create a new Gravity load

Leave the region as default and apply loads as shown

Then in the feature tree window expand the load states and select step 2
propagated
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And reduce the component two load to zero


Lastly also apply an entcastre boundary conditions on the bottom four corners

6.

Field output requests

Before meshing select the field output request and increase the interval to 500.

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7.

Meshing

In the meshing module mesh the aluminium tank and water block with spacings
of about 0.05. Now assign an element type to the water

Change the element library to explicit and Conversion to particle to yes, with
threshold = 0

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8.

Editing Keywords

Before testing the model the some lines must be added to the model keywords,
select the edit keywords option on the feature tree window

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Then scroll down to end assembly and select add after on the last line of Eos

The insert the lines:

*TENSILE FAILURE, element deletion=no, pressure=ductile, shear=ductile


100.0
Also under *Section Controls change the 1., 1., 1. to ., ., 1.

9.

Create and summit job

Create and summit a job in the default manner

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10. Post Processing


To get the best results from the model a bit of post processing is necessary.
First remove the mesh lines; to do this select the common options tool and
choose feature edges.

The water particles within the cube should be visible. This can be attained in one
of two ways; using the view cut tool to cross-section the box or using
transparency

View cut cross-section

Global transparency
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You can also change the variables plotted on the geometry to, for example
velocity at nodes. To do so select field output from the result drop down menu
and choose from the list of variables.

To get the best demonstration of the movement of the particles choose either:
U

spatial displacement at nodes

spatial velocity at nodes

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