Free boundary viscous flows at micro and mesolevel during liquid composites moulding process

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 435-455

  Dimitrovová, Zuzana ^a   Advani, Suresh G ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Free boundary flows; Liquid composite moulding; Mesolevel analysis; Microlevel analysis; Resin transfer moulding; Surface tension effects

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPREGNATION; RESINS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FREE BOUNDARY PROGRAMS (FBP); LIQUID COMPOSITE MOLDING (LCM);

VISCOUS FLOW;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLDING; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 4744370298     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.761     Document Type: Article

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