Steady-state hydrodynamic lubrication modeled with the payvar-salant mass conservation model

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Xiong, Shangwu ^a   Wang, Q Jane ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

finite difference; hydrodynamic bearings; mass conservation

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC MEAN; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; CONTINUOUS FILMS; DIRECT SOLVERS; DISCONTINUOUS FILMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FITTING FORMULA; GROOVE DEPTH; HARMONIC MEAN; HYDRODYNAMIC BEARINGS; HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; MASS CONSERVATION; MAXIMUM PRESSURE; MIDDLE POINTS; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PLAIN JOURNAL BEARINGS; POCKETED PAD BEARINGS; REFERENCE FILMS; SMOOTH SURFACE; SUCCESSIVE OVER RELAXATION; TRI-DIAGONAL MATRIX ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; JOURNAL BEARINGS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; THRUST BEARINGS;

LUBRICATION;

EID: 84863490555     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006615     Document Type: Article

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