Computation of Effective Permeability for Porous Carbon Composites

Poovathingal, Savio J.; Soto, Brendan M.; Brewer, Cameron

doi:10.31224/osf.io/wuy3z

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“…The FiberForm density and the full composite density (FiberForm + resin) is set to 180 and 210 / 3 , respectively, which results in a net porosity of ∼ 0.8. These values provide the best agreement with permeability measurements based on a previous study [34].…”

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confidence: 83%

“…In the Fibergen code, the user can control the distribution of three-dimensional orientations, fiber diameters, bulk porosity, fiber density, and material density. Resin is infused into the sample through a stochastic approach [34]. In the manufacturing of the composite, the resin is infused into the microstructure of FiberForm which bonds to the carbon fibers in a random manner.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…1b, red pixels represent the resin that is bonded to the underlying base structure of fibers, represented in black. The ability of Fibergen to reproduce material features and effective material properties (permeability and radiative coefficients) has been previously validated [7,34,36]. Additional details of the Fibergen code can be found in Refs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The flow computations are performed using the the open-source DSMC solver, Stochastic Parallel Rarefied-gas Time-accurate Analyzer (Sparta) [48][49][50] with in-house enhancements [34]. Sparta uses a multi-level Cartesian mesh to track and collide particles.…”

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“…In order to explore an aspect of the change in material properties, effective permeability is computed for the damaged microstructure and compared against the values for the virgin microstructure. This property is chosen because microscale flow computations of effective permeability has been validated against experimental data [33,34].…”

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Microscale modeling of particle impact on TPS materials during high-speed entry

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Chen²

2021

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Micron-sized particles suspending in planetary atmospheres can damage thermal protectionsystems (TPS) during entry of space capsules into planetary bodies. TPS materials arecomplex heterogeneous carbon composites, where the microstructure of the composite can playa pivotal role in the propagation of the damage caused by the impact. Here, we present anapplication of a novel computational technique called the lattice particle method to understandthe initiation and growth of craters formed on TPS materials upon impact by particles. Thesimulations are initially compared against experiments that used borosilicate as the impactingparticle and fused silica as the target surface. The simulations reproduce the damage profiles,diameters, and depths of the craters being formed on the target silica surface. A parametricstudy is then performed by varying the fracture strength of the target surface and the impactingparticle. It is found that the profiles of the damaged region on the silica surface primarilydepends on the fracture strength of the silica surface, and not the impacting particle. Thesimulations are extended to model the damage of porous carbon composites that are used asTPS materials. Microstructures of carbon composites are generated using an in-house codethat has been shown to reproduce features of the real material in past studies. While thecrater depth on the fused silica surface was within 38% irrespective of the fracture strengthof the particle, the damaged depth changes by at least an order of magnitude when a carboncomposite surface is used and the fracture strength of the impacting particle is varied. Finally,the influence of damage on the effective permeability is computed using the direct simulationMonte Carlo technique. The maximum increase in the permeability force for the damagedmicrostructures is found to be 20%, which suggests that the crater created in the damagedmicrostructure does not significantly influence the path traversed by gases percolating throughthe porous TPS material.

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