This paper concerns the prediction of the effect of Hele Shaw flow upon the orientation of a suspension of short fibers. A numerical method to solve the decoupled free boundary flow problem and to calculate the fiber orientation is elaborated. Recent developments in the theory of the 3D natural closure approximation are presented and discussed.
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