“…There have been a number of studies concerned with the free vibration characteristics (1)- (3) , the responses of the centrifugal wave to lateral (4), (5) and axial excitations (6) , the self-excited vibration of a system consisting of a tank and its elastic supports (7)- (13) , utilization as a dynamic absorber (14) , and the nonlinear sloshing analysis based on shallow water approximation theory (15)- (19) . These studies are classified into those which consider viscosity (5), (7)- (9), (11)- (13), (15), (16), (18) and those which use inviscid theory (1)- (4), (6), (10), (14), (17), (19) , or into those which consider the coupling with the vibrations of elastic supports (7)- (17) and those which analyze the liquid motion generated by a prescribed tank excitation (4)- (6), (18), (19) . One feature of the earlier works is that they focus on the analyses of the phenomena.…”