A case study of realistic two-scale modeling of water permeability in fibrous media

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1901-1916

  Jaganathan, Sudhakar ^a   Tafreshi, Hooman Vahedi ^b   Pourdeyhimi, Behnam ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; CFD simulation; Fiber; Fibrous materials; Nonwovens; Permeability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CONCRETES; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUID MECHANICS; FORECASTING; LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLIDS;

3-D IMAGING; 3-D SPACE; ANALYTICAL MODELLING; CASE STUDIES; CFD CODES; CFD SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL MEMORY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FIBER; FIBER ORIENTATIONS; FIBROUS MATERIALS; FIBROUS MEDIA; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLUENT INC.; MICRO SCALES; MODELING STRATEGY; NON-UNIFORMITIES; NONWOVEN; NONWOVENS; PERMEABILITY; PERMEABILITY TENSORS; POROUS MEDIUMS; SCALE MODELING; SOLID-VOLUME FRACTION; SUB-DOMAINS; TOMOGRAPHIC METHODS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING; WATER FLOW; WATER PERMEABILITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FIBER DIAMETER; FIBER ORIENTATION; HYDROENTANGLING; NONWOVEN FABRIC; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 46049104233     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01496390802063960     Document Type: Article

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