Special Issue on Modeling

Foreword
Guest Editors: Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi and Behnam Pourdeyhimi

Modeling Heat and Mass Transfer from Fabric-Covered Cylinders
Phillip Gibson
U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, & Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts, USA

An Investigation of the Radiative Heat Transfer through Nonwoven Fibrous Materials
Imad Qashou
Fiberweb Inc., Old Hickory, Tennessee, USA

Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi
Mechanical Engineering Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Behnam Pourdeyhimi
Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Collection Efficiency for Filters with Staggered Parallel Y and Triple Y Fibers: A Numerical Study
Huaning Zhu
Juan P. Hinestroza
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Tensile Behavior of Low Density Thermally Bonded Nonwoven Material
Xiaonan Hou
Memiş Acar
Vadim V. Silberschmidt
Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK

Simulation of Multifilament Semicrystalline Polymer Fiber Melt-Spinning
Young-Pyo Jeon
Christopher L. Cox
Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA