Lubricating Grease Shear Flow and Boundary Layers in a Concentric Cylinder Configuration

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1106-1115

  Li, J X ^a   Westerberg, Lars G ^a   Hoglund E ^a   Lugt, P M ^b   Baart, P ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SKF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary Layer; Grease Flow; Herschel Bulkley Rheology; Microparticle Image Velocimetry; Velocity Profile, Lubrication

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CYLINDER CONFIGURATIONS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELASTICITY; LUBRICATING GREASES; LUBRICATION; ROLLER BEARINGS; ROTATING MACHINERY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR THINNING; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONCENTRIC CYLINDERS; GREASE FLOW; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY; MICRO PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; ONE DIMENSIONAL ANALYTICAL MODEL; SHEAR-THINNING BEHAVIOR; VELOCITY PROFILES; WALL-SLIP EFFECTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84907971464     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402004.2014.937886     Document Type: Article

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