On the use of Laplace's equation for pressure and a mesh-free method for 3D simulation of nonlinear sloshing in tanks; Reply to the discussion

Abstract

In this reply, we re-emphasize on the fact that in the simulation of inviscid incompressible fluid flows using Lagrangian description, under some conditions, the divergence operator and the material derivative operator commute and thus the Laplace of the pressure is applicable in practical engineering problems as it has already been used and verified in numerous studies by many researchers. We show that the incompressibility condition suggested by the author of the discussion (discusser), as the replacement for divergence of the velocity field in using finite time increments, is insufficient and wrong. It will be shown that the concept has totally been misinterpreted by the discusser. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd