MASS FABRICATION & EVOLUTION OF BEADS ON FIBER

Author

Kirthika Suresh

Graduation Semester and Year

2018

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

First Advisor

Unknown

Abstract

In this work, we systematically explore the relation between the coating speeds and the finally formed liquid beads on fiber. The main focus of the paper lies with contact angle, length and height of beads on fiber and the fiber drawing velocity. For this purpose, free energy variation method is applied, based upon which the boundary conditions for the beads-on-fiber system and governing equations were re-derived. A combination of both, first and the second kind of the Legendre’s elliptical functions are used to determine the geometrical shape of the beads. Contact angle is extracted from the experimental data by using a semi-analytic approach. This approach can be referred to for determining surface tension of fluids for cases such as sessile drop on a fiber.

Disciplines

Aerospace Engineering | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

Recommended Citation

Suresh, Kirthika, "MASS FABRICATION & EVOLUTION OF BEADS ON FIBER" (2018). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 806.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/806