About this Abstract |
Meeting |
MS&T22: Materials Science & Technology
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Symposium
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Ceramics and Glasses Modeling by Simulations and Machine Learning
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Presentation Title |
Pore-resolved Simulations of Chemical Vapor Infiltration in 3D Printed Preforms and the Kinetic Regimes |
Author(s) |
Mengnan Li, Vimal Ramanuj, Ying She, Ramanan Sankaran |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Mengnan Li |
Abstract Scope |
With the rapid advancement of computing capability, pore-resolved direct numerical simulations (DNS) have become feasible for studying the transport and kinetic regimes encountered in chemical vapor infiltration (CVI). We present DNS simulations using a level set approach to capture the complex topology between the vapor and solid phases during the densification process. The simulations were performed using a finite rate kinetic model for the deposition of silicon carbide (SiC) from a methyltrichlorosilane (MTS) precursor. We present the computational model and the simulation approach. The model was applied to simulate densification of 3D printed preforms and conduct a parametric study to investigate the role of competing transport and reaction processes. Results are presented to show the evolving non-uniform porosity, structure functions and the distribution of residual voids. |