Static sealing performance of gas mechanical seals including surface roughness and rarefaction effects

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 531-536

  Polycarpou, Andreas A ^a   Etsion, Izhak ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contact of rough surfaces; Flow rate; Gas seals

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEALING (CLOSING); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

KNUDSEN NUMBER; MECHANICAL GAS SEALS; RAREFACTION EFFECTS;

SEALS;

GAS FLOW; MECHANICAL SEAL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STATIC SEAL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0032194494     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402009808983779     Document Type: Article

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