Abstract: Our earlier studies of elastohydrodynamic lubrication of conjunctions of elliptical form are applied to the particular and interesting situation exhibited by materials of low elastic modulus. By ...

Abstract: A linear regression by the method of least squares is made on the geometric variables that occur in the equation for elliptical-contact deformation. The ellipticity and the complete elliptic ...

Abstract: Temperatures of the lubricant in the inlet zone, the central contact zone, and the outlet zone of EHL line contact conjunctions were simultaneously calculated for a complete range of sliding ...

Abstract: The thermal circular non-Newtonian model accompanied with three specialized models was used to study the mechanisms of film generation and traction reduction in EHL line contact conjunctions. ...

Abstract: The pressure, film thickness, and streamline patterns within the lubrication conjunction in elastohydrodynamic and microelastohydrodynamic lubrication are presented for various operating parameters. ...

Abstract: A complete solution is obtained for elastohydrodynamically lubricated conjunctions in line contacts considering the effects of temperature and the non-Newtonian characteristics of lubricants with ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional stream functions for flows in elastohydrodynamically lubricated elliptical conjunctions are formulated. Closed-form and numerical solutions for the stream functions on special planes ...

Abstract: The Carreau shear thinning equation and the modified Roelands thermal thinning equation are combined by using the generalized master curve approach to construct a new thermal non-Newtonian rheology ...

Abstract: A closed-form approximate solution to ultrathin and near-zero-pitch liquid lubrication of magnetic head-rigid disk interfaces for near-contact recording is derived. This study focuses on the steady ...