... in Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre Fabrication and Characterisation ,” Opt. Fiber Technol. 1068-5200 10.1016/S1068-5200(03)00045-2 , 9 , pp. 199 – 209 . Paek , U. C. , and Runk , R. B. , 1978 , “ Physical Behavior of the Neck-Down Region During Furnace Drawing of Silica Fibers ,” J...

... received very little attention in the literature, particularly with respect to modeling, and this paper presents an initial study of the underlying transport. silicon compounds optical fibre cladding drawing (mechanical) optical fibre fabrication refractive index finite difference methods...

... of the process. radiation heat transfer multi-layer cylinder zonal method optical fibre fabrication heat radiation drawing (mechanical) optical multilayers optical fibre cladding furnaces preforms silicon compounds germanium compounds boron compounds absorption coefficients...

... fibre fabrication preforms drawing (mechanical) radiative transfer Navier-Stokes equations computational fluid dynamics convergence of numerical methods flow simulation grid computing A number of industrial processes, such as Czochralski crystal growth, VAD preform stretching...

... . The neck-down profile strongly depends on the fiber-drawing conditions and significantly impacts the diameter uniformity, strength, and transmission loss of optical fibers 2 3 . optical fibre fabrication flow instability temperature distribution resistance furnaces wire drawing optical...

...H. M. Reeve; A. M. Mescher; A. F. Emery optical fibre fabrication natural convection heat radiation optical polymers heat transfer preforms drawing (mechanical) high-temperature techniques The following captions should read: Fig. 2 Numerically predicted contour plots...

... the furnace wall temperature and to the feed rate of the polymer. optical fibre fabrication natural convection heat radiation optical polymers heat transfer preforms drawing (mechanical) high-temperature techniques In this paper we examine the force required to draw polymer optical fiber...

... by the Heat Transfer Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER . Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division, Feb. 28, 1999; revision received, Dec. 9, 1999. Associate Technical Editor: M. Modest. 28 Feb 1999 09 Dec 1999 optical fibre fabrication drawing (mechanical...