Gate elements at injection locations in numerical simulations of flow through porous media: Applications to mold filling

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1501-1519

  Simacek, Pavel ^a   Advani, Suresh G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Flow in porous media; Modified shape functions

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INJECTION MOLDING; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

DARCY FLOW; GATE ELEMENTS; MESH REFINEMENT;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; MOLDING; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 8344259168     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1116     Document Type: Article

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