scholarly journals Modeling the airflow field of vortex spinning

2021 ◽  
pp. 004051752110569
Author(s):  
Shanshan Shang ◽  
Zikai Yu ◽  
Guangwu Sun ◽  
Chongwen Yu ◽  
R Hugh Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Wall Function ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Spinning Process ◽  
Turbulent Airflow ◽  
Region Model ◽  
Airflow Field ◽  
Control Volumes ◽  
Insight Into

Vortex spinning technology adopts a high-speed swirling airflow to rotate the fibers with open-ends to form yarn with real twists. The airflow behavior within the nozzle has a great effect on the yarn-formation process. In this study, a three-dimensional calculation nozzle model and corresponding three-dimensional airflow region model were established to enable the numerical calculation; airflow behavior—pressure, velocity, and the turbulent airflow field, and the streamline of airflow—was investigated in the presence of fiber bundles within the vortex spinning nozzle. Hybrid hexahedral/tetrahedral control volumes were utilized to mesh the grids in the calculation region. To consider airflow diffusion and convection in the nozzle, the Realizable k- ε turbulence model with wall function was adopted to conduct the calculation. Dynamic and static pressure values were obtained by numerical analysis to predict the action of the inner surface of nozzle and the wall resistance on the high-speed swirling airflow. The numerical simulation of dynamic airflow behavior can generate great insight into the details of airflow behavior and its distribution characteristics, and is helpful for understanding the spinning mechanism and promoting optimization of the spinning process.

Numerical simulation of the airflow field in vortex spinning processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 1113-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Shang ◽  
Jianping Yang ◽  
Chongwen Yu
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Stable Process ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Suction Force ◽  
Spinning Process ◽  
Airflow Field ◽  
Yarn Tenacity

Three-dimensional numerical simulation of the airflow characteristics during the whole vortex spinning process, including the initial state of the yarn drawing-in process and the normal stable process, were obtained and analyzed. Spinning experiments, with the aid of a scanning electron microscope, were adopted to verify the results of the numerical simulation. The numerical simulation results show that the turbulence phenomenon in the normal spinning process is much more obvious than that in the initial spinning process; the air streamlines move orderly in the initial spinning process, which will produce a strong suction force that will be conducive to drawing the fiber bundle into the nozzle successfully, but the trajectory of airflow is complex in the normal stable spinning process and there is an upstream airflow with the same direction as the rotating airflow to provide extra tension for the yarn, which can improve the strength of the resultant yarn. The spinning experimental result is consistent with the result predicted by numerical simulation. The research further reveals the flow regularity and the turbulent phenomenon of the high-speed rotating airflow, predicts the effect of airflow motion on the spinning effect, and is helpful for stabilizing the spinning process and improving the yarn tenacity.

Effect of position of the fiber transport channel on fiber motion in the high-speed rotor

2021 ◽  
pp. 004051752110018
Author(s):  
Rui Hua Yang ◽  
Chuang He ◽  
Bo Pan ◽  
Hongxiu Zhong ◽  
Cundong Xu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Channel Model ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Discrete Phase Model ◽  
Transport Channel ◽  
Rotor Spinning ◽  
Fiber Motion ◽  
Discrete Phase ◽  
Airflow Field ◽  
Fiber Transport

The task of the fiber transport channel (FTC) is to transport the fibers from the carding roller to the rotor. Its geometric position in the spinning machine has a strong influence on the characteristics of the airflow field and the trajectory of the fiber motion in both the rotor and the FTC. In this paper, a three-dimensional pumping rotor spinning channel model was established using ANSYS-ICEM-CFD software with three different positions of the FTC (positions a–c). Further, the simulations of air distribution were performed using Fluent software. In addition, the discrete phase model was used to fit the fiber motion trajectory in the rotor. The simulation results showed that among the three types of FTC, position b is the optimal condition. The gradients of airflow velocity in the channel at position b were greater than those of the other two positions, which is conducive to straightening of the fiber.

Numerical simulation of airflow characteristics in the spinning zone at starting time of air-jet spinning machine

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 2342-2352
Author(s):  
Thi Viet Bac Phung ◽  
Akihiro Yoshida ◽  
Yoshiyuki Iemoto ◽  
Hideyuki Uematsu ◽  
Shuichi Tanoue
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Bundle ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Swirl Flow ◽  
Air Pressure ◽  
Suction Force ◽  
Starting Time ◽  
Air Jet ◽  
Spinning Process ◽  
Center Axis

To clarify the formation mechanism of a source of yarn and to discuss the effects of supplied air pressure and exhaust air pressure on the fiber suction force and twist torque at the starting time of the spinning process in an air-jet spinning machine, we simulated, numerically, the three-dimensional airflow pattern without fibers in the spinning zone. Results obtained are as follows: High-speed air jetted through the starting nozzles into the yarn duct in the circumferential direction causes a swirl flow in the yarn duct and a negative pressure region near the center axis of the yarn duct. Hence, air and fibers at the fiber inlet are sucked through the processing duct into the yarn duct. A fiber bundle sucked into the yarn duct rotates, owing to the action of the swirl airflow, and twists the fiber bundle in the processing duct, hence generating a source of yarn. The fiber suction force takes a distribution with a peak against the supplied air pressure and is independent of the exhaust air pressure. The fiber twist torque increases monotonously with supplied air pressure.

Exploratory Studies on the Control of High-Speed Flows With Magnetogasdynamics

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Datta V. Gaitonde
Keyword(s):  
Flow Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Ground Testing ◽  
Simulation Efficiency ◽  
The Status ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
Insight Into

Magnetogasdynamics (MGD) has the potential to lift many of the constraints presently inhibiting sustained hypersonic flight and affordable access to space. Given the difficulty of ground-testing under the expected harsh conditions, numerical methods can provide insight into the physical phenomena, and thus complement experimental investigations in the development of future concepts. This paper describes the status of an effort to develop a high-fidelity, fully three-dimensional method to explore MGD flow control in complex configurations. The theoretical model includes several non-ideal effects and takes recourse to a blend of first principles and phenomenological approaches to enhance simulation efficiency. Boundary conditions are summarized and sample verification exercises are presented. Exploratory calculations on a reentry vehicle and flow-through scramjet flowpath with MGD-bypass demonstrate the versatility of the approach and yield insight into dominant flow control mechanisms.

scholarly journals The Airflow Field Characteristics of the Unmanned Agricultural Aerial System on Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus) Canopy for Supplementary Pollination

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2035
Author(s):  
Songchao Zhang ◽  
Chen Cai ◽  
Jiqiang Li ◽  
Tao Sun ◽  
Xiaoming Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brassica Napus ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Oilseed Rape ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Flight Path ◽  
Distribution Law ◽  
Pollination Success ◽  
Airflow Field

Pollination success is essential for hybrid oilseed rape (OSR, Brassica napus) seed production, but traditional pollination methods are not efficient. The unmanned agricultural aerial system (UAAS) has developed rapidly and has been widely used in China. When flying, the wind field generated by the rotors overcomes the UAAS gravity, and it blows and disturbs the crops below, which helps the pollen spread. In order to investigate the distribution law of the three-dimensional (direction x, y, z) airflow field, experiments involving three levels of flight speed (FS) at 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 m/s, and three levels of flight height (FH) at 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 m were conducted in the OSR field by using an electric four-rotor UAAS P20. The effects of FS and FH on airflow velocities (, , ) were analyzed. High-speed dynamic camera (HSDC) technology was used to capture the swings of OSR plants under airflow field disturbance. OSR pollen samples were collected during the experiments. The results showed that the airflow field in the direction x was mainly concentrated on the center of the flight path (S3), and the maximum wind velocity of direction x was 8.01 m/s (T1, S3). The direction x airflow field width was distributed almost symmetrically, but the center position shifted easily, due to crosswind. The airflow field in the direction y was distributed on both sides of the center flight path, and the velocity was generally larger, with the maximum at 7.91 m/s (T1, S2). The airflow field in the direction z was distributed irregularly, and the velocity was small. The FH had highly significant impacts on (p < 0.01), and the interaction of FS and FH had significant impacts on (0.01 < p < 0.05), while the FS had no significant impact on (p = 0.70804 > 0.05). The FS, FH, and interaction of FS and FH all had highly significant impacts on (p < 0.01). The swings of the OSR plant captured by the HSDC proved that the UAAS airflow field could effectively blow the OSR plant. The swing amplitude changes showed a positive correlation with airflow velocities () in general. Although the observed OSR plant swung forward and backward repeatedly, there was a law of first forward, and then backward, and forward again at the beginning of each swing. The pollen collected on the sampler verified that the UAAS airflow field could help with pollen spread. The research results provide technical support for UAAS application on supplementary pollination for hybrid OSR seed production.

scholarly journals The Biochemistry of Fibrin Cross-Linking

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell F. Doolittle
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Fibrin Clot ◽  
Cross Linking ◽  
Peptide Bonds ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Carboxy Terminal ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Fibrinogen Molecule

The final steps in the formation of a fibrin clot involve the factor XIII-catalyzed introduction of covalent peptide bonds. These bonds are the result of the condensation of specific lysine and glutamine sidechains in γ-chains on the one hand and α-chains on the other. Function apart, these bonds have provided great insight into the way the individual molecular units are arranged in the fibrin polymer. Thus, the reciprocal pairing of the carboxy-terminal segments of γ-chains to yield γγ dimers indicates that all molecules in the polymer have the same orientation, and, because of the dimeric nature of the fibrinogen molecule, the abbutting chains of neighboring molecules are therefore antiparallel. Until now the three-dimensional involvement of α-chains—which in contrast to γ-chains become multimerically cross-linked--has been completely mysterious. Recently, however, we have isolated those portions of α-chains involved in multimeric cross-linking by fragmenting fully cross-linked fibrin with cyanogen bromide. Thus, we were able to identify the linked fragments as two segments which, when not cross-linked, have mol. wts. of 29,000 and 6,000 respectively. The latter fragment has aminoterminal leucine and is thought to be the carboxy-terminal penultimate CNBr fragment in the α-chain. It is linked in equimolar quantities to the large mol. wt. glutamic acid-ending fragment. The total mol. wt. of the multimerically linked units is greater than 500,000. The nature of the fragment network is such that the orientation of the α-chains in fibrin could be either parallel or antiparallel. In either case the architecture is well suited to lateral cross-linking between fibrin polymers.

scholarly journals Measurement and Comparison of Melt-Blowing Airflow Fields: Nozzle Modifications to Reduce Turbulence and Fibre Whipping

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 719
Author(s):  
Ying Yang ◽  
Yongchun Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Turbulence Intensity ◽  
Temperature Fluctuation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Aerodynamic Force ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Melt Blowing ◽  
Fluctuation Intensity ◽  
Slot Die ◽  
Turbulent Airflow ◽  
Airflow Field

In the melt-blowing process, micro/nanofibrous nonwovens are attenuated and formed through aerodynamic force in a turbulent airflow field. In this work, two types of airflow-directors were added under a common melt-blowing slot-die nozzle to obtain modified airflow fields. The effect of airflow-directors on time-averaged characteristics, turbulence intensity, and temperature fluctuation intensity are achieved through the simultaneous measurement of fluctuating velocity and fluctuating temperature using a two-wire probe hot-wire anemometer. Moreover, the influence of airflow-directors on fibre oscillations are also investigated through high-speed photography. The distribution of turbulence intensity and temperature fluctuation intensity reveals the characteristics of fluctuating airflow fields formed by different melt-blowing slot-die nozzles. Through the analyses of airflow characteristics and fibre oscillations, we can find that the arrangement of airflow-directors has a great impact on both turbulence distribution and fibre oscillation.

scholarly journals ST-Trie: A Novel Indexing Scheme for Efficiently Querying Heterogeneous, Spatiotemporal IoT Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9727
Author(s):  
Hawon Chu ◽  
Jaeseong Kim ◽  
Seounghyeon Kim ◽  
Young-Kyoon Suh ◽  
Ryong Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Indexing Methods ◽  
Indexing Scheme ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Efficient Retrieval ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Insight Into

Recently, various environmental data, such as microdust pollution, temperature, humidity, etc., have been continuously collected by widely deployed Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. Although these data can provide great insight into developing sustainable application services, it is challenging to rapidly retrieve such data, due to their multidimensional properties and huge growth in volume over time. Existing indexing methods for efficiently locating those data expose several problems, such as high administrative cost, spatial overhead, and slow retrieval performance. To mitigate these problems, we propose a novel indexing scheme termed ST-Trie, for efficient retrieval over spatiotemporal IoT environment data. Given IoT sensor data with latitude, longitude, and time, the proposed scheme first converts the three-dimensional attributes to one-dimensional index keys. The scheme then builds a trie-based index, consisting of internal nodes inserted by the converted keys and leaf nodes containing the keys and pointers to actual IoT data. We leverage this index to process various types of queries. In our experiments with three real-world datasets, we show that the proposed ST-Trie index outperforms existing approaches by a substantial margin regarding response time. Furthermore, we show that the query processing performance via ST-Trie also scales very well with an increasing time interval. Finally, we demonstrate that when compressed, the ST-Trie index can significantly reduce its space overhead by approximately a factor of seven.

scholarly journals Continuous nanofiber yarns twisted through three-dimensional high-speed swirling airflow

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1269-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Xin He ◽  
Yu-Man Zhou ◽  
Kun Qi ◽  
Fu-Juan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
New Method ◽  
Airflow Field

A new method is proposed to fabricate continuous twisted nanofiber yarns. Nanofibers are bunched by a double conjugate electrospinning, and then twisted through a three-dimensional high-speed swirling airflow. Its principle and process are analyzed theoretically, and the airflow field inside the nozzle chamber is studied numerically, and mechanical properties of nanofiber yarns at different spinning conditions are systematically discussed.

Structure and function of neural networks in the retina

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Peter Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Ganglion Cells ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Synaptic Connections ◽  
Visual Axis ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Cat Retina ◽  
Ultrathin Sections ◽  
And Function ◽  
Insight Into

The synaptic connections in cat retina that link photoreceptors to ganglion cells have been analyzed quantitatively. Our approach has been to prepare serial, ultrathin sections and photograph en montage at low magnification (˜2000X) in the electron microscope. Six series, 100-300 sections long, have been prepared over the last decade. They derive from different cats but always from the same region of retina, about one degree from the center of the visual axis. The material has been analyzed by reconstructing adjacent neurons in each array and then identifying systematically the synaptic connections between arrays. Most reconstructions were done manually by tracing the outlines of processes in successive sections onto acetate sheets aligned on a cartoonist's jig. The tracings were then digitized, stacked by computer, and printed with the hidden lines removed. The results have provided rather than the usual one-dimensional account of pathways, a three-dimensional account of circuits. From this has emerged insight into the functional architecture.

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