Film thickness variations in Elasto-hydrodynamically lubricated circular contacts induced by oscillatory entrainment speed conditions

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 533-547

  Venner, C H ^a   Hagmeijer, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elasto hydrodynamic lubrication; Validation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MODULATION; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RHEOLOGY; SPEED; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AMBIENT VISCOSITY; BULK VISCOSITY; CIRCULAR CONTACTS; CONVENTIONAL MODELING; DIMENSIONLESS FREQUENCY; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; ELASTO-HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; ENTRAINMENT VELOCITIES; FILM-THICKNESS; NEWTONIAN; NON-NEWTONIAN LUBRICANTS; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR; VALIDATION; VISCO-ELASTIC;

FORECASTING;

EID: 48749107864     PISSN: 13506501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/13506501JET306     Document Type: Article

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