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.
Anno
2016
Autori IAC
Tipo pubblicazione
Altri Autori
M. Lauricella, G. Pontrelli, D. Pisignano, S. Succi
Editore
Elsevier
Rivista
Journal of computational science (Print)