A note on permeability simulation of multifilament woven fabrics |
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Authors: | Q. Wang B. Pourdeyhimi |
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Affiliation: | Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8301, USA |
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Abstract: | A conventional approach for modeling permeability of multifilament fabrics is to consider their warps and wefts to be individual thick filament made of homogeneous porous media and solve the flow equations for such monofilament fabrics. In this work, for the first time, the full 3-D geometry of an idealized multifilament woven fabric, wherein the filaments are packed in hexagonal arrangement, is generated to compute its permeability and compare with the homogeneous anisotropic lumped model of Gebart (1992. Permeability of unidirectional reinforcements for RTM. Journal of Composite Materials 26(8), 1100-1133). While a relatively good agreement is obtained, our results indicate that Gebart's model slightly underestimate the permeability of multifilament fabrics even at high yarn's solid volume fractions. |
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Keywords: | Air permeability Multifilament fabrics CFD simulations Fluid flow |
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