Fluid flows containing dilute or dense suspensions of thin fibers are widespread in biological and industrial processes. To describe the motion a immersed fiber, to forces acting on it, it is convenient work with one-dimensional fiber centerlines force densities rather than two-dimensional surfaces surface tractions. Slender body theories offer ways model simulate using only data. However, stan...

The kinetics of the fiber orientation during processing of shortfiber composites governs both the processing characteristics and the cured part performance. The flow kinetics of the polymer melt dictates the fiber orientation kinetics, and in turn the underlying fiber orientation dictates the bulk flow characteristics. It is beyond computational comprehension to model the equation of motion of ...