Melt-blowing of viscoelastic jets in turbulent airflows: stochastic modeling and simulation

DOI10.1016/J.APM.2019.06.023zbMATH Open1481.76022arXiv1902.01811OpenAlexW2950290827WikidataQ127636010 ScholiaQ127636010MaRDI QIDQ1985228FDOQ1985228

Authors: Manuel Wieland, Walter Arne, Nicole Marheineke, Raimund Wegener 

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In melt-blowing processes mico- and nanofibers are produced by the extrusion of polymeric jets into a directed, turbulent high-speed airflow. Up to now the physical mechanism for the drastic jet thinning is not fully understood, since in the existing literature the numerically computed/predicted fiber thickness differs several orders of magnitude from those experimentally measured. Recent works suggest that this discrepancy might arise from the neglect of the turbulent aerodynamic fluctuations in the simulations. In this paper we confirm this suggestion numerically. Due to the complexity of the process direct numerical simulations of the multiscale-multiphase problem are not possible. Hence, we develop a numerical framework for a growing fiber in turbulent air that makes the simulation of industrial setups feasible. For this purpose we employ an asymptotic viscoelastic model for the fiber. The turbulent effects are taken into account by a stochastic aerodynamic force model where the underlying velocity fluctuations are reconstructed from a $k$-$epsilon$ turbulence description of the airflow. Our numerical results show the significance of the turbulence on the jet thinning and give fiber diameters of realistic order of magnitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01811

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problemfinite volume schemeturbulence modelingfiber dynamicsupper-convected Maxwell modelmelt-blowing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

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