Lubrication in soft rough contacts: A novel homogenized approach. Part i - Theory

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 10395-10406

  Scaraggi, Michele ^a,b   Carbone, Giuseppe ^a   Persson, Bo N J ^c   Dini, Daniele ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY-ASPERITY INTERACTION; BOUNDARY FILMS; BOUNDARY LUBRICATION REGIME; COUPLED EFFECT; DIRECT CONTACT; HYDRODYNAMIC REGIME; MATING SURFACES; MIXED LUBRICATION; NORMAL LOADS; ROUGH CONTACT; ROUGH SURFACES; SOFT-SOLID; STEADY SLIDING; THIN FLUID FILMS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

LUBRICATION;

EID: 80054999121     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05128h     Document Type: Article

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