Discrete simulation of electrospinning jet’s evolution

Abstract

The simulation results in Matlab show good agreement with reports from literature. Initial results also show that the jet shape during electrospinning is an indicator for the fibers’ diameter and thus,the resulting fibers’ quality. Future stud- ies would include more experiments and analysis of more images to confirm the initial results. The ultimate goal is to establish the exact influence of the above-mentioned parameters on the fibers’ diameter. This would allow to set rough values of electrospinning parameters,which could be further fine-tuned,in order to obtain the best fibers without the need to perform many experiments. The beneficial effect of such simulations are time gain,but also reduced material consumption,maintenance costs etc.