Simulating through-plane permeability of fibrous materials with different fiber lengths

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 855-868

  Wang, Q ^a   Maze, B ^a   Tafreshi, H Vahedi ^b   Pourdeyhimi, B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTATIONAL BOXES; FIBER LENGTH; FIBROUS MATERIALS; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION;

FIBERS;

EID: 36348981520     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/15/8/003     Document Type: Article

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