Rigid Body-Liquid Coupled Sloshing in Partially Filled Tank under Microgravity
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摘要: 航天器在执行姿态调整、交会对接及轨道机动等任务时,航天器受到微重力环境以及横向、旋转等复合扰动作用,导致充液贮箱内推进剂发生显著晃动,晃动力作用于航天器,引发系统刚-液耦合运动,影响航天发动机性能与姿态高精度控制。本研究基于开源计算流体力学平台OpenFOAM开发了贮箱-推进剂系统六自由度刚-液耦合晃动求解器,系统分析了初始角速度、外力加载过程及流体-刚体质量比对耦合系统动力学特性的影响。结果表明,刚-液耦合作用不仅向刚体运动引入额外扰动,且易诱发系统失稳;同时,晃动所导致的耗散效应使流体振荡衰减速度高于非耦合状态;此外,耦合效应导致系统运动偏离目标状态,能量耗散与系统鲁棒性之间存在平衡关系。研究指出,在航天器姿态控制系统设计与稳定性评估中,须充分考虑刚-液耦合效应及其参数依赖特性。Abstract: During spacecraft attitude maneuvers, rendezvous and docking, and orbital transfer, the combined effects of the microgravity environment and translational and rotational disturbances induce significant propellant sloshing in partially filled tanks. The resulting slosh forces interact with the spacecraft, giving rise to rigid–liquid coupled dynamics that degrade engine performance and attitude control accuracy. In this study, a six-degree-of-freedom rigid body-liquid coupled sloshing solver for spacecraft propellant tank systems was developed based on the open-source computational fluid dynamics platform OpenFOAM. Numerical simulations were performed to systematically investigate the effects of the initial angular velocity, external acceleration loading history, and fluid-to-rigid-body mass ratio on the dynamic characteristics of the coupled system. The results show that rigid–liquid coupling not only introduces additional disturbances into the rigid-body motion but also increases the tendency of dynamic instability. Meanwhile, viscous dissipation induced by propellant sloshing accelerates the attenuation of fluid oscillations compared with the uncoupled case. Furthermore, the coupling effect causes the system response to deviate from the desired motion, revealing a trade-off between energy dissipation and system robustness. These findings demonstrate that rigid–liquid coupling and its dependence on operating parameters should be fully considered in the design and stability assessment of spacecraft attitude control systems.
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Key words:
- Propellant management /
- Microgravity /
- Rigid body-fluid coupling /
- Tank sloshing
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