Simulation study for prediction of short Fiber Orientation reinforced thermoplastics

Abstract The purpose of this paper is the simulation image processing of thermoplastic reinforced with short fibers with an established code in Matlab for the determination of the sizes, orientation, and the ambiguity of the fibers. Which gives a general idea about what happens before crystallization in the mold. Generally, the simulation of short fiber orientation involves coupled analysis of flow, temperature, moving free surface, and fiber kinematics. For the governing equation of the flow, Hele-Shaw flow model along with the generalized Newtonian constitutive model has been widely used. The kinematics of a group of fibers is described in terms of the second-order fiber orientation tensor.