Effect of multi-scale porosity in local permeability modelling of non-crimp fabrics

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-124

  Nordlund, Markus ^a   Lundstrom T S ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Discretization error; Grid convergence; Local permeability; Multi scale; Non crimp; Numerical modelling; Porous

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

FIBER BUNDLES; MULTI-SCALE GEOMETRY; MULTI-SCALE REINFORCEMENTS; NON-CRIMP FABRICS;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 41849131033     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9161-0     Document Type: Article

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