Prediction of Flow Properties of Porous Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) Structures

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The flow through geometrically complex structures is an important engineering problem. In this work, the laminar flow through Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) structures is numerically analyzed using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Two different TPMS structures were designed, and their porosity was characterized as a function of the isovalue. Then, CFD simulations were implemented to compute the pressure drop by systematically varying the flow velocity and the porosity of the structure. A Darcy–Forchheimer model was fitted to CFD results to calculate the inertial and permeability coefficients as functions of the porosity. These types of results can be very useful for designing fluid flow applications and devices (for instance, heat exchangers), as well as for integrating these TPMS structures since the flow can be very well estimated when using the porous medium model.

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Piedra, S., Gómez-Ortega, A., & Pérez-Barrera, J. (2023). Prediction of Flow Properties of Porous Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) Structures. Fluids, 8(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids8120312

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