M Sharifpur - Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria ۰۰۰۲, South Africa
M Mahdavi - PhD student, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria ۰۰۰۲, South Africa
J.P Meyer - Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria ۰۰۰۲, South Africa

In this study a multilayer infusion process is simulated by ANSYS-FLUENT 15 for two different cases. The cases consist of the three parallel porous media layers and an equivalent one layer porous media (instead of the three). The results of the simulations show that the equivalent one layer approximation is not proper approach for combination of different ذlayers with different porosity and permeability.

Vacuum infusion, multilayer porous medium, CFD Simulation