Formation Mechanism of Fibrous Web in the Solution Blowing Process

Abstract

Solution blowing (SB) is a widely reported technology that can be used to fabricate fibers at the micro- and nanoscale. To reveal the fibrous web formation mechanism in SB, we improved our previous melt blowing (MB) model to predict fibrous web structures. Then, we fabricated two samples and simulated the same number of virtual samples in the computer to verify the model. Thereafter, we measured the structural parameters including the fiber diameter, fiber orientation, basis weight, and pore size. Our model provides a good prediction of the fiber orientation and basis weight. However, the predicted fiber diameter was slightly smaller than the measured diameter. The experimental pore size distribution was also different from that in the simulated results. The model provides a virtual fabrication process to reveal a fibrous web formation mechanism and finds a similar distribution of these structural parameters between SB and MB.

Numerical Analysis of Fiber/Air-Coupling Field for Annular Jet

“…In this paper, the standard model [ 24 ] was chosen, which can reduce the computation time and cost. In addition, it was proved that the calculation results obtained by the standard model were basically consistent with the data collected by the hot wire anemometer [ 29 ].…”