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Can We Fabricate That Fibre?

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This paper reviews the development of an efficient mathematical model for the drawing of optical fibres using extensional flow theory which is applicable for fibres of arbitrary geometry. The model is comprised of a 1D axial stretching problem describing the change in area of the cross-section from preform to fibre coupled with a 2D cross-plane problem describing the evolution of a cross-section. The solution of the axial stretching problem may be written in an exact form while the cross-plane problem must, in general, be solved numerically. The model may be used to solve forward and inverse problems and gives results that compare well with experiments.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    Yvonne M. Stokes & Michael J. Chen

  2. Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Darren G. Crowdy

  3. Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Chemistry and Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem

  4. LowReTech LLC, 3401 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Peter Buchak

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  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Stokes, Y.M., Crowdy, D.G., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Buchak, P., Chen, M.J. (2019). Can We Fabricate That Fibre?. In: Gutschmidt, S., Hewett, J., Sellier, M. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances in Moving Boundary Problems in Mechanics. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13720-5_1

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