Moisture transport in fibrous clothing assemblies

Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-54

  Huang, Huaxiong ^a   Ye, Changhua ^b   Sun, Weiwei ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Clothing assemblies; Condensation evaporation; Fibrous porous medium; Multi component flow; Multi phase

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; FABRICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MOISTURE TRANSPORT; QUASI-STEADY APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; SEMI-IMPLICIT NUMERICAL SCHEME;

MOISTURE;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; FABRICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 42249094221     PISSN: 00220833     EISSN: 15732703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10665-007-9201-3     Document Type: Article

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