A New Approach for Estimating the Friction in Thin Film Lubrication

An important problem in the theory of lubrication is to model and analyze the effect of surface roughness on, for example, the friction and load carrying capacity. A direct numerical computation is often impossible since an extremely fine mesh is required to resolve the surface roughness. This sugge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dag Lukkassen, Annette Meidell, Peter Wall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/963983