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Predictive modelling of flow through porous microstructures
Margetts L., McDonald S., Lever L.M., Calmet H., Houzeaux G. and Mummery P.M
In: 23rd International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2011; 16 May 2011-20 May 2011; Barcelona, Spain. 2011.
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Abstract
Micro-structurally faithful CFD models of materials with porous architectures can be created directly from three dimensional X-ray microtomography scans. These CFD models are typically very large and therefore require high performance computing facilities to solve the resulting system of equations. This paper presents results for a time dependent, low Reynolds number flow simulation through a volume of aluminum foam. Future work will use predictive modelling to help design new porous micro-architectures for specific application areas.