A full-system approach of the elastohydrodynamic line/point contact problem

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Habchi, W ^a   Eyheramendy, D ^a,b   Vergne, P ^a   Morales Espejel, G ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c SKF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CONTACT PROBLEM; CONTACTING SURFACES; ELASTIC PROBLEMS; ELASTICITY EQUATIONS; FASTER CONVERGENCE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE DISCRETIZATION; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; FULLY-COUPLED; IMPROVED CONVERGENCE; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; MATRIX; MEMORY USAGE; NEW APPROACHES; REDUCED SIZE; REYNOLDS; SPARSE JACOBIANS; STABILIZATION TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM APPROACH; WEAK COUPLINGS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; ELASTOHYDRODYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; REYNOLDS EQUATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 43349086086     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2842246     Document Type: Article

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