Polymer Engineering and Science, Vol.34, No.12, 958-964, 1994
Air Drag on Fine Filaments at Oblique and Normal Angles to the Air Stream
Measurements are reported for air drag on fine filaments whose axes are oriented at oblique and normal angles to the air velocity. In terms of the drag coefficient C(DN) the data are fit well by the following relation : C(DN) = 6.96(Re(DN))-0.440 (d/d0)0.404, where Re(DN) is the Reynolds number based on flow normal to the fiber axis, and d/d0 is a dimensionless fiber diameter. A wide range of conditions were tested : filament diameters ranged from 13 to 390 microns, gas velocities ranged from 22 to 83 m/s, and fiber Reynolds numbers ranged from 29 to 2120.