Study of the effects of inner pressure and surface tension on the fibre drawing process with the aid of an analytical asymptotic fibre drawing model and the numerical solution of the full N.-St. equations

DOI10.1007/s00419-013-0768-zzbMath1293.76068MaRDI QIDQ399040

Cornelia Rauh, Philipp Epple, Giovanni Luzi, Antonio Delgado

Publication date: 19 August 2014

Published in: Archive of Applied Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-013-0768-z

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methods; asymptotic analysis; mathematical modelling; Holey fibres; micro-structured optical fibres (MOFs); photonic crystal fibres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M45: Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

Cites Work

• Radiative heat transfer in preforms for microstructured optical fibres
• The mathematical modelling of capillary drawing for holey fibre manufacture
• The surface-tension-driven evolution of a two-dimensional annular viscous tube