What is Pores Medium & How to Simulate it in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation?

Material which contain Pores are called Porous material, the weight of the porous material is less when compared to the solid material. The porosity of the material is defined by the Porous size the is formed in the material, there are different techniques for manufacturing these type of material depending on the size of the porous void that to be formed.

There are wide range of applications like catalysis, chemical separations, tissue engineering and exhaust manifold. In the exhaust manifold the harm full chemicals are removed by using porous material.

There are different types of Porous material according to direction of flow

1. Isotropic

2. Non Isotropic(Unidirectional, Axisymmetric, Orthotropic)

There will be change in the pressure, velocity and direction of flow changes according to the porous medium, by using Solidworks flow simulation can simulate the flow.

Steps for creating the Porous medium in Flow study:

1. Create the wizard by defining the Flow type, units, types of Fluid.

2. If the porous is not showing in the tree then Right click on project(1) options appear as shown in the Fig:1, click customize tree

3. The options appear as shown in Fig:2, click on the Porous Medium to get activated.

Fig 1

Fig 2

  

4. An exhaust manifold with porous medium and the inlet and out let manifolds as shown below:

5. Defining the porous material to individual domains, one part as unidirectional are shown below:

6. Defining  isotropic for the other domain as shown below:

7. The Fig:3 shows how the porous medium is defined in the study 

Fig 3

By running the simulation we can obtain the inlet and outlet velocity, pressure drop, due to porous medium, depending on the size of the porous and the type of the porous there will be change in the velocity, pressure

drop, these can be captured prier using SolidWorks Flow simulation.