A fast numerical method for isothermal resin transfer mold filling

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1405-1417

  Maier, R S ^a   Rohaly, T F ^b   Advani, S G ^c   Fickie, K D ^b  

^a Minnesota Supercomputer Institute   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Control volume; Free surface; Porous medium; RTM; Sparse matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TRANSFER MOLDING;

CHOLESKY FACTORIZATION; CONTROL VOLUME FINITE ELEMENT; FREE SURFACE FLOW; ISOTHERMAL FLOW; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; SPARSE MATRIX;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

FABRICATION; FLOW; POROUS MEDIA; RESIN TRANSFER MOULDING; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL;

EID: 0030111639     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960430)39:8<1405::AID-NME910>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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