Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (Jan 2024)

Displacement identification of oil storage tank and calibration of tank capacity table model based on indicator function integral

  • Qinghua Liu,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Keying Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024082
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 2
pp. 1872 – 1883

Abstract

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Based on the indicator function integral, this paper identifies the displacement of oil storage tank and calibrates the tank capacity table model. The displacement parameters of a cylinder oil tank with spherical caps at both ends are deduced by establishing an appropriate rectangular coordinate system while cross-section analysis, coordinate transformation, and the functional relationship between oil reserves and oil level height are used as well. Furthermore, the displacement parameters are determined by the least square method and alternating contraction search method to verify the data, which improves the accuracy of the calculation. This research simplifies the integral operation and can be extended to other types of liquid containers of arbitrary shape as a generally applicable method, which shows significant application value for further research on the integral method of indicator function.

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