Micro-scale modeling of axial flow through unidirectional disordered fiber arrays

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1286-1293

  Chen, Xiaoming ^a   Papathanasiou, T D ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Fibrous media; Liquid molding; Permeability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

INTER-FIBER SPACING; LIQUID MOLDING; UNIDIRECTIONAL DISORDERED FIBER ARRAYS;

AXIAL FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS SECTION; FIBER ARRANGEMENT; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 33847731726     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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