Permeability predictions for woven fabric preforms

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1569-1586

  Chen, Zuo Rong ^a   Ye, Lin ^a   Lu, Meng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Fabric preform; Finite element method; Permeability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; DARCY FLOWS; DARCY'S LAW; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FABRIC PREFORMS; FIBER VOLUME FRACTIONS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; PERMEABILITY PREDICTION; PLAIN WEAVE FABRICS; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; STOKES EQUATIONS; UNIT CELLS; VELOCITY FIELD; WOVEN FABRICS;

CAPILLARITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; POROUS MATERIALS; PREFORMING; WEAVING;

FABRICS;

EID: 77953105356     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998309355888     Document Type: Article

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