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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University of Oxford;Mathematical Institute
1997
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