A closed form solution for flow in dual scale fibrous porous media under constant injection pressure conditions

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 699-708

  Zhou, Fuping ^a   Alms, Justin ^a   Advani, Suresh G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constant pressure; LCM; Liquid composite molding; RTM; Saturation modeling; Tow saturation; VARTM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FABRICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

DARCY'S LAW; LIQUID COMPOSITE MOLDING; TOW SATURATION;

INJECTION MOLDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; INJECTION MOLDING; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE; SYNTHETIC RESIN; TOW;

EID: 38649138036     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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