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Wire electrochemical micromachining (Wire-ECMM) has gained significant popularity and attention from researchers around the globe for generating linear and nonlinear micro slits on electrically conducting workpiece surfaces with uniform or variable thickness. Features machined using this process find applications in various industries including MEMS, aerospace, automobile, biomedical, consumer electronics and similar others. However, the applicability of this process in machining of cylindrical workpieces is yet to be investigated exhaustively. In the present work, principles of Wire-ECMM are used for turning operation and it is termed as Wire electrochemical turning (Wire-ECTrg). For the purpose of predicting the anode profile with time in two dimensions, a model is developed based on finite element method (FEM) and the algorithm is implemented on MATLAB (R2016a). Distribution of electric potential in the …