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Orientational Distribution of Fibres in Sheared Fibre Suspensions |
| KU Xiao-Ke1; LIN Jian-Zhong 1,2 |
| 1Department of Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 3100272College of Metrological Technology and Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018 |
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KU Xiao-Ke, LIN Jian-Zhong 2007 Chin. Phys. Lett. 24 1622-1625 |
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Abstract Motion of fibres in sheared fibre suspensions is simulated numerically by using the lattice Boltzmann method. The orientational distributions of the fibres are presented for different Reynolds numbers, Stokes numbers, shear rate and fibre aspect ratio. Some computational results are compared with the experimental data of pipe flow, and the qualitative agreement is achieved. The results show that the orientational distributions are greatly affected by the Reynolds numbers, while relatively insensitive to the fibre aspect ratio. The Stokes number and shear rate have obvious influence on the orientation
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Received: 05 December 2006
Published: 17 May 2007
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