TY - JOUR
T1 - Applications of front tracking to the simulation of resin transfer molding
AU - Song, Y.
AU - Chui, W.
AU - Glimm, J.
AU - Lindquist, B.
AU - Tangerman, F.
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author was supported in part by the Indiana University South Bend 1996 Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. This work has been supported by the Applied Mathematics Subprogram of the U.S. Department of Energy DE-FG02-90ER25084, the National Science Foundation, Grants DMS-9500568 and DMS-9312098, and the Army Research Organization DAAL-04-95-10414. The authors wish to thank Northrop-Grumman Company where some of the experimental work was performed.
PY - 1997/5
Y1 - 1997/5
N2 - Resin Transfer Molding, as a method for the manufacture of advanced fiber reinforced composite materials, is attractive because it offers the possibility of lower manufacturing costs and more complex shapes than the traditional manufacturing methods. A major issue in this new manufacturing process is the elimination of void spaces in the resin fill operation, so that products with high quality are manufactured. In this paper, we present a two-phase, two-component air solubility model to study the formation and migration of the macro and micro-voids. The numerical solutions of the model are obtained through a front tracking code. The front tracking method has the distinguishing feature of preserving sharp interfaces throughout the simulation. The results demonstrate that the model proposed here has desirable qualitative agreement with experimental results. Based on these results, we make numerical predictions to show how modeling could improve the manufacturing process and, hence, enhance product quality.
AB - Resin Transfer Molding, as a method for the manufacture of advanced fiber reinforced composite materials, is attractive because it offers the possibility of lower manufacturing costs and more complex shapes than the traditional manufacturing methods. A major issue in this new manufacturing process is the elimination of void spaces in the resin fill operation, so that products with high quality are manufactured. In this paper, we present a two-phase, two-component air solubility model to study the formation and migration of the macro and micro-voids. The numerical solutions of the model are obtained through a front tracking code. The front tracking method has the distinguishing feature of preserving sharp interfaces throughout the simulation. The results demonstrate that the model proposed here has desirable qualitative agreement with experimental results. Based on these results, we make numerical predictions to show how modeling could improve the manufacturing process and, hence, enhance product quality.
KW - Composite materials
KW - Front tracking
KW - Mathematical modeling
KW - Porous media flow
KW - Resin transfer molding
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U2 - 10.1016/S0898-1221(97)00065-5
DO - 10.1016/S0898-1221(97)00065-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031147365
SN - 0898-1221
VL - 33
SP - 47
EP - 60
JO - Computers and Mathematics with Applications
JF - Computers and Mathematics with Applications
IS - 9
ER -