Journal article
Directing and Simulating Flow Properties in Large-Scale Weft-Knitted Fabrics
Textiles (Basel), v 6(4), 130
12 Oct 2026
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Abstract
Weft-knitted fabrics offer significant potential for smart textile applications due to their versatile and programmable structure. However, the lack of effective computational simulation tools limits the precise design of large-scale fabrics with targeted physical properties, such as liquid flow control. Building upon our previous flow property design method with small-scale yarn topology graphs, this paper presents significant advancements toward large-scale, flow-controlled fabric design. We improve the computational efficiency of the flow diffusion simulations, devise tiling methods to assemble 10×10 optimized basic swatches into 100×100 middle-scale fabrics, and further scale the approach to construct 1000×1000 large-scale stitch patterns suitable for clothing-related applications. Furthermore, we propose flow design strategies enabling complex flow routing within fabrics. Our results demonstrate that it is feasible to engineer knitted fabrics with user-specified flow properties, offering new possibilities for smart textiles, wearable sensors, and comfort management systems.
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- Title
- Directing and Simulating Flow Properties in Large-Scale Weft-Knitted Fabrics
- Creators
- Chen Sun - Drexel UniversityDavid E. Breen (Corresponding Author) - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Textiles (Basel), v 6(4), 130
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Other Identifier
- 991022240897004721