Solving ehl problems using iterative, multigrid, and homotopy methods

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-33

  Nurgat, Elyas ^a   Berzins, Martin ^a   Scales, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

HOMOTOPY METHOD; MULTIGRID METHODS;

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION;

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0033062044     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2833805     Document Type: Article

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