Mechanisms of carding

A model for a slender thread or fibre in a slow viscous incompressible fluid is derived. The material of the thread is assumed to have no bending stiffness and to be strictly inextensible. The model is then applied to a simplified industrial situation found in carding, where a thread hangs off a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, M
Format: Thesis
Published: University of Oxford;Mathematical Institute 1997