Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4951081 | Journal of Computational Science | 2016 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Nowadays, several models of unidimensional fluid jets exploit discrete element methods. In some cases, as for models aiming at describing the electrospinning nanofabrication process of polymer fibers, discrete element methods suffer a non-constant resolution of the jet representation. We develop a dynamic mesh-refinement method for the numerical study of the electro-hydrodynamic behavior of charged jets using discrete element methods. To this purpose, we import ideas and techniques from the string method originally developed in the framework of free-energy landscape simulations. The mesh-refined discrete element method is demonstrated for the case of electrospinning applications.
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Authors
Marco Lauricella, Giuseppe Pontrelli, Dario Pisignano, Sauro Succi,