The Isothermal Simulation of the Un-Saturated Flow in the Dual-Scale Porous Media

Abstract:

Most of the mold-filling simulation theories for RTM were based on Darcy law and combined with mass conservation equation. Considering the unsaturated region in the experiment, the followings have been done in this paper: (1) first, explaining this un-saturated phenomenon as a sink effect, and amending the saturated filling mold by introducing a sink term to the mass constant equation; (2) second, achieving a simple 1d mold’s unsaturated simulation of the filling process through the compiled software pore-flow.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 652-654)
• Pages: 143-147
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.652-654.143
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Yong Jing Lee, Shi Lin Yan, Xin Ye, Zhong Jiang Feng
• Keywords: Delay Infiltration, Dual-Scale Porous Media, Sink Function, Unsaturated Flow

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