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Direct Numerical Simulation of Liquid Transport Through Fibrous Porous Media

Palakurthi, Nikhil Kumar
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406881191

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2014, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Mechanical Engineering.
Fluid flow through fibrous media occurs in many industrial processes, including, but not limited, to fuel cell technology, drug delivery patches, sanitary products, textile reinforcement, filtration, heat exchangers, and performance fabrics. Understanding the physical processes involved in fluid flow through fibrous media is essential for their characterization as well as for the optimization and development of new products. Macroscopic porous-media equations require constitutive relations, which account for the physical processes occurring at the micro-scale, to predict liquid transport at the macro-scale. In this study, micro-scale simulations were conducted using conventional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique (finite-volume method) to determine the macroscopic constitutive relations. The first part of this thesis deals with the single-phase flow in fibrous media, following which multi-phase flow through fibrous media was studied.
Urmila Ghia, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Kelly Anderson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
James Kenneth Comer, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kirti Ghia, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Milind Jog, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lilit Yeghiazarian, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
134 p.
Mechanical Engineering
Fibrous Media; Micro-scale Simulation; Darcy Perneability; Equivalent Capillary Radius; Capillary Pressure-Saturation; Capillary Transport

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  • Palakurthi, N. K. (2014). Direct Numerical Simulation of Liquid Transport Through Fibrous Porous Media [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406881191

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Palakurthi, Nikhil Kumar. Direct Numerical Simulation of Liquid Transport Through Fibrous Porous Media. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406881191.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Palakurthi, Nikhil Kumar. "Direct Numerical Simulation of Liquid Transport Through Fibrous Porous Media." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406881191

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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