A MODEL FOR PREDICTING FREE SURFACE FLOW OF THE RTM PROCESS
Paper in proceeding, 2017

A novel model is developed for modeling the Resin Transfer Moulding process. The compressible two-phase flow porous media formulations accounting for the capillary effects and relative permeability are derived. The resulting equations lead to a non-linear coupled closed system that contains a parabolic mixture pressure equation plus a convection-diffusion-reaction saturation equation. Then a staggered Galerkin finite element approach is used to decouple the solution of mixture pressure and saturation degree. Moreover, the Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) technique is applied to attenuate the oscillations in the saturation solutions. The model accuracy and convergence of the solving scheme is then demonstrated through 1-D numerical examples. The present model is turned out to be a standard boundary value and initial value problem with high computational efficiency and robust solutions.

Porous media theory

Resin transfer moulding

Process modeling

Author

Da Wu

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Material and Computational Mechanics

Ragnar Larsson

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Material and Computational Mechanics

ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

21st International Conference on Composite Materials
Xi'an, China,

Subject Categories

Computational Mathematics

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

Areas of Advance

Materials Science

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