Analytical determination of viscous permeability of hybrid fibrous reinforcements

Analytical determination of viscous permeability of fibrous porous media

In this study, the permeability of ordered fibrous media towards normal and parallel flow is determined analytically. In this approach, porous material is represented by a ‘‘unit cell” which is assumed to be repeated throughout the media. Several fiber arrangements including: touching and non-touching arrays are considered. Modeling 1D touching fibers as a combination of channel-like conduits, ...

The Structure – Permeability Relation of Textile Reinforcements

Permeability of textile reinforcements: Simulation, influence of shear and validation

The permeability of textile reinforcements is a crucial input for the simulation of the impregnation stage of a composite material fabrication process. In this paper, we present a fast and accurate simulation method for the permeability of a textile reinforcement, based on a finite difference discretisation of the Stokes equations. Results for single layer, multi-layer and sheared models are di...

Predicting the Permeability of Textile Reinforcements via a Hybrid Navier- Stokes/brinkman Solver

Numerical computation of textile permeability is important for composite manufacturing. Using Darcy’s law, permeability can be derived from a simulation of the fluid flow, i.e. after solving the Stokes, Navier-Stokes or Brinkman equations. The latter allow to model intra-yarn flow in case of permeable yarns. In this paper we present a numerical method for the calculation of the permeability of ...

Numerical analysis of viscous flow through fibrous media: a model for glomerular basement membrane permeability.

Viscous flow through fibrous media is characterized macroscopically by the Darcy permeability ( K D). The relationship between K D and the microscopic structure of the medium has been the subject of experimental and theoretical investigations. Calculations of K D based on the solution of the hydrodynamic flow at fiber scale exist in literature only for two-dimensional arrays of parallel fibers....