The transverse permeability of disordered fiber arrays: A statistical correlation in terms of the mean nearest interfiber spacing

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-251

  Chen, Xiaoming ^a   Papathanasiou, Thanasis D ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Fibrous media; Liquid molding; Permeability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CORRELATION METHODS; FIBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROSITY;

HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; INTERFIBER SPACING;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CORRELATION METHODS; FIBERS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROSITY;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CORRELATION; FLOW MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 38649113293     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9123-6     Document Type: Article

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