Abstract
The fibrous pre-form of resin transfer molding is a dual-scale porous medium with two distinct scales of pores, i.e., pores in intra- and inter-tow, which produce an unsaturated infiltration phenomenon during filling. A sink term representing the delayed flow rate from the inter-tow gap into the intra-tow one is introduced to establish governing equations. This study mainly analyzes the sink term by tow saturation during the microscopic flow. First, fiber-tow permeability is calculated by FLOTRAN of ANSYS, Second, periodic unit cells are built according to different structures, and the concrete expression of the sink term is indirectly obtained through the numerical simulation and date fitting of tow saturation under different pressure and viscosity conditions. Results indicate that: the FLOTRAN module can be used to calculate the permeability of fiber tow in two directions; Moreover, the filling time and infiltration process for diverse unit cells with the same volume fraction are different; under the same injection condition, different unit cells have different parameters for the sink term.
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