An efficient numerical scheme is presented for simulating the isothermal flow in resin transfer molding (RTM). The problem involves transient, free surface flow of an incompressible fluid into a nondeforming porous medium. A new variant of the control volume finite element (CVFE) algorithm is explained in detail. It is shown how the pressure solutions at each time step can be obtained by adding a single row and column to the ...
An efficient numerical scheme is presented for simulating isothermal flow in resin transfer molding (RTM). The problem involves transient, free- surface flow of an incompressible fluid into a nondeforming porous medium. A new variant of the control volume finite element (CVFE) algorithm is explained in detail. It is shown how the pressure solutions at each time step can be obtained by adding a single row and column to the Cholesky ...