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A Model for Plate Clash in Disk Refiners Frédéric Alfonsi and D.J. Jeffrey Department of Applied Mathematics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Abstract We present an extension of the Miles--May model of pulp flow in a wood-chip disk refiner. The extended model is aimed specifically at understanding plate clash in disk refiners, which occurs if the pulp pad between the refining plates can no longer support the axial thrust on the plates and the control mechanism allows them to touch. The model considers separately the pulp between the bars and the pulp in the grooves o