Empty thermal liquid tank

how to have an empty thermal liquid tank with a volume of 0.357 m3 and a radius of 37 cm??

Thank you

Answer 1

[Sebastian Castro]

Have you looked into Simscape Fluids? They have a built in Thermal Liquid tank block you can parameterize based on specs like the ones you mentioned.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/hydro/ref/tanktl.html

The only work you may need to do is convert the radius to a cross-sectional area parameter (Area = pi*R^2).

- Sebastian

[Sadeer Al-Rawashdeh]

Thank you for you reply Sebastian, Ive been working on it for three days and I discovered that this tank is not empty an intial conditions, I need an empty tank at start and I want to fill it from another tank.

I saw your reply on a similar question on 2016, you recomended the use of a translational mechanical converter, I built it but I dont understand how can I convert a volume of 0.357 m3 to intiail displacement??

Please help me.

[Sebastian Castro]

And did you set the initial conditions in the Variables tab to start the tank empty? Because the default values are non-empty so that makes sense unless you change it.

[Sadeer Al-Rawashdeh]

Yess but if you do so, you'll end up and error about the tank level that it is lower than the inlet height ! how can i fix that?