On the variability of the Kozeny constant for saturated flow across unidirectional disordered fiber arrays

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 37, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 836-846

  Chen, Xiaoming ^a   Papathanasiou, Thanasis D ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

B. Microstructures; C. Computational modelling; E. Resin transfer moulding (RTM); Kozeny constant

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; POTENTIAL FLOW; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCATTERING;

CARMAN-KOZENY EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DARCY'S LAW; EXPERIMENTALLY-DETERMINED VALUES; FIBER BEDS; KOZENY CONSTANT; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POTENTIAL FLOW PROBLEM; SATURATED FLOW; UNIDIRECTIONAL DISORDERED FIBER ARRAYS;

FIBERS;

EID: 33645058194     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.01.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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