TY - JOUR
TI - Macro fluid analysis of laminated fabric permeability
AU - Qiu Li
AU - Chen Xiao-Dong
AU - Wang Rui
AU - Wang De-Peng
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 3
SP - 835
EP - 838
PT - Article
AB - A porous jump model is put forward to predict the breathability of laminated  fabrics by utilizing fluent software. To simplify the parameter setting  process, the methods of determining the parameters of jump porous model by  means of fabric layers are studied. Also, effects of single/multi-layer  fabrics and thickness on breathability are analyzed, indicating that fabric  breathability reduces with the increase of layers. Multi-layer fabric is  simplified into a single layer, and the fabric permeability is calculated by  proportion. Moreover, the change curve of fabric layer and face permeability,  as well as the equation between the fabric layer and the face permeability  are obtained. Then, face permeability and pressure-jump coefficient  parameters setting of porous jump model could be integrated into single  parameter (i. e. fabric layers), which simplifies the fluent operation  process and realizes the prediction of laminated fabric permeability.