Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Lu jingang, my advisor is prof. Hwang. My ph.

D subject is
Stokes-Brinkman approach for flows in dual scale porous media with anisotropic interfacial slip.
We are interested in Liquid Molding manufacturing, for example, the resin transfer molding. As you
know that it is a dual scale flow, macroscale flow between the fiber tows and the microscale flow
inside the fiber tows. To guarantee the good properties of the material, we usually need to remove the
voids during the processing. The voids will move with the resin in the channel. Obviously, the
presence of the fiber tows will affect the flow field in the channel. Due to the complex microstructure
of the fiber tows, its very difficult to know the individual pore scale flow. In fact, we dont need to
know the detailed flow information inside the fiber tows. We care much about the flow in the
channel and the effects of the fiber tows. So we assume that the effect of the fiber tows can be
replaced by an effective slip surface with a slip velocity. Then what is the slip velocity? According to
Beavers and Joseph, when fluid flows over the porous media, the slip velocity at the interface is
proportional to the velocity gradient. Beta is the slip coefficient. In fact, in 3D simulation, the
interfacial slip is anisotropic which means the slip in the transverse direction and the longitudinal
direction are different. So the tensor form of the Navier slip boundary condition is usually used to
describe such an anisotropic flow. And the slip length is found to be reciprocal to the slip coefficient.
The key point is how to obtain an accurate value of the slip coefficient beta. In this work, we assume
the flow rate over the fiber tows is the same as the flow rate over an effective slip surface. This
method is called flow rate matching method. Later we will talk about this in detail. In summary, we
are the first using the anisotropic slip model to describe the flow over the fibrous porous media, and
we provide very accurate values of the slip coefficient Beta.
Another one is, in liquid composites manufacturing, sometimes we need to add some particles into
the resin to improve some specific properties such as the fire resistance. So we need to know how the
particle moves and what will be the distribution. In fact the particle motion will be affected by not
only the flow field in the channel but also the flow field inside the fiber tows near the interface. The
same problem is that it is also a dual scale flow, its very difficult to know the detailed flow
information inside the fiber tows. So in this work, we simplify the actual fibrous porous media as an
effective porous region with two characteristic parameters: K and mu tilde. A lot of previous work
Stokes-Darcy coupling to describe such flow. But it is proved that at the interface, the slip velocity is
much larger than the Darcy velocity in the porous media, which means there is a discontinuity of
velocity at the interface, which is not physically reasonable. So near the interface, the slip velocity
should gradually reduce to the Darcy velocity. In fact the Brinkman equation follows this rule. And
far away from the interface, the effect of the Brinkman term will vanish and it will reduce to Darcys
law.
So in this work, we use Stokes-Brinkman coupling to describe the anisotropic flow over the fibrous
porous media. The fiber tows are replaced by an effective porous region with two characteristic
parameters k and mu tilde. The challenging work is how to obtain the accurate value of the effective
viscosity. In fact it should be a tensor due to the anisotropic flow property. Some previous work
simply regard it as the same as the fluid viscosity, which is actually not that accurate in many cases.
But now in this work we provide pretty accurate values of the effective viscosity which is a function
of slip coefficient Beta.
First, I would like to explain why I talk this subject in the metal matrix composites session. In the
beginning, I submitted the paper about the squeeze casting of metal matrix composites, but later I
found that it might be much more interesting to present the dual-scale flow simulation in liquid
composites manufacturing. So I changed the title, but the session doesnt change. While, what I am
going to present here is pretty common for all the composites manufacturing. Ill be happy if you
enjoy it.
We are interested in liquid composites manufacturing, for example, the resin transfer molding. It is a
dual-scale flow: macroscale flow in the channel between the two fiber tows moves much faster than
the microscale flow inside the fiber tows. Due to the complex microstructure, its very difficult to
know the detailed flow information inside the fiber tows. In fact, we care more about the flow in the
channel, for example, during the processing, its necessary to remove the voids. Then how the voids
will move? Obviously the presence of the fiber tows will affect the channel flow. So in this work, we
try to simplify the effect of the actual fiber tows as an effective slip surface with a slip velocity. So
the key becomes how to accurately characterize the slip velocity. Later we will talk about this in
detail.
Another one is, in liquid composites manufacturing, sometimes we need to add some particles into
the resin to improve some specific properties of the material, such as the fire resistance. So we need
to know how the particle moves and what will be the distribution. Again, it is a dual-scale flow, we
apply the Stokes-Brinkman model to describe such flow. We assume an effective porous region with
the permeability and the effective viscosity to replace the actual fiber tows. So the key is how to
characterize the effective viscosity, which is usually very different from the fluid viscosity. We
correlate this issue with the slip work, and accurately characterize the effective viscosity.