https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2004186
Convective and radiative drying of a thin aqueous polymeric suspension coating on an optical fibre
TREFLE (UMR 8508), Esplanade des Arts et Métiers, 33405 Talence
Cedex, France
Corresponding author: gobbe@lept-ensam.u-bordeaux.fr
Received:
28
May
2003
Revised:
7
May
2004
Accepted:
25
June
2004
Published online:
10
September
2004
High-velocity convective and radiative drying of an optical fibre coated with an aqueous polymeric suspension is considered. This study is divided into two parts: drying is first experimentally tested using a semi-industrial device, then a heat and mass transfer model between the fibre and its environment is proposed and discretised. The comparison of experimental and numerical results consolidates the assumptions of the present model and thus allows to consider it in future to dimension an industrial coating-drying process.
PACS: 44.35.+c – Heat flow in multiphase systems
© EDP Sciences, 2004
