Abstract: Creeping viscous flow in a nonuniform pipe is analyzed by taking the local velocity profile and pressure gradients to be those of flow in a cone-shaped region. With this approach it is not ...

Abstract: The theory of slow, steady-state viscoelastic flow is applied to axisymmetric motions in which the region of flow is so far from the axis of symmetry that the motion is “almost plane.” ...

Abstract: The paper describes and illustrates a procedure for computing the deflection of a foil bearing due to a finite width bump when the load is light enough that perturbations of the foil position ...

Abstract: The assumption of “perfect flexibility” is shown to be self-consistent in an important class of finite-width foil bearing problems. When the membrane equations are written in the “stretched ...