Abstract: A theoretical analysis was made to study the effect of fluid inertia on a porous thrust plate. The most elementary configuration was chosen as an analytic model to investigate this effect ...

Abstract: The well-established narrow groove theory for spiral groove gas bearings [1] has been generalized to include the effects of rarefied gas and turbulence. The slip flow effect was considered ...

Abstract: Exact solutions for a class of incompressible spiral-grooved viscous pumps were obtained by solving the dynamic perturbation equations based on the governing equations of the well-known narrow ...

Abstract: The work presented here is a preliminary study of the Mach number effect based on the usual lubrication assumptions except, for the retention of convective terms in the equations of motion. ...

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to study the effect of molecular mean free path on the steady-state performance characteristics of a spiral-grooved thrust bearing operating in extremely thin ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical scheme capable of yielding accurate pressure profile for the transient and steady hydrodynamic gas film generated by high-speed relative motion of two nonparallel ...

Abstract: The pulsating flows in both infinite and finite conical nozzles were analyzed theoretically. Sinusoidal pressure disturbances were impressed at the nozzle exit for the infinite nozzle and at ...