Abstract:
Porous body data 60 in which position information and type information are correlated is reference to take a curved surface solid including a parent virtual sphere and child virtual spheres as a virtual curved surface solid, and place multiple virtual curved surface solids so as to fill in space pixels with curved surface solid pixels occupied by virtual curved surface solids (steps S230 through S320). Repeating this process, by placing multiple virtual curved surface solids within space in a porous body, the microstructure of the porous body is analyzed precisely. As for analysis, deriving of in-plane uniformity index γx, spatial uniformity index γ, pressure drop P, flow-through velocity T, and equivalent diameter d for example, and acceptability determination based on derived values thereof, is performed.
Abstract:
The porous body satisfies at least one of the following three conditions; “the average value of multiple in-plane uniformity indices γx is 0.6 or greater, and the spatial uniformity index γ is 0.6 or greater”, “the percentage of the total value of volume of low-flow-velocity curved surface solids as to the total value of volume of multiple virtual curved surface solids is 20% or less, and the percentage of the total value of volume of high-flow-velocity curved surface solids as to the total value of volume of multiple virtual curved surface solids is 10% or less”, and “the percentage of the total value of volume of mid-diameter curved surface solids as to the total value of volume of multiple virtual curved surface solids is 60% or more”.