抄録
Oil tankers carrying high viscous oil are usually equipped with the cargo-oil heating system. From the point of view of improvement in economy, the cargo-oil heating system is required to be more efficient. In this paper, comparison of oil heating model testing and 3D unsteady numerical simulation of thermal convection in the tank under the assumption of incompressibility was made to verify numerical calculation method. As the results, it is found that thermal convection performance during model tank heating was approximately characterized by unsteady incompressible thermal convection numerical model.
