Three-dimensional resin transfer molding: Isothermal process modeling and explicit tracking of moving fronts for thick geometrically complex composites manufacturing applications - part 1

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 815-838

  Mohan, R V ^a   Ngo, N D ^a   Tamma, K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; PLASTIC FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT-CONTROL VOLUME (FE-CV) APPROACH; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (RTM) PROCESS MODELING;

TRANSFER MOLDING;

EID: 0033137498     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104077899274921     Document Type: Article

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