Despite numerous experimental and theoretical studies reported in the literature, surface
micro-texturing to control friction and wear in lubricated tribo-contacts is still in the trial-and …

A two-scale homogenization method for modelling the hydrodynamic lubrication of
mechanical seals with isotropic roughness was developed and presented the influence of …

A surface homogenization method for acoustic waves over thin microstructured surfaces in
the presence of a fluid in a potential flow is presented. Sound hard surfaces are considered …

It has been over a century since the interest in inventing the optimal topology for bearings
arose. A significant achievement was published by Lord Rayleigh, who found the step …

Tribological behavior of tribo-pairs is strongly dependent on the surface topography. Further,
the structural deformation, manufacturing, and assembly errors cause the hydrostatic thrust …

We derive approximate mean field equations for the fluid flow between elastic solids with
randomly rough surfaces including interfacial fluid slip and shear thinning. We present …

To exactly describe lubrication problems modeling micro-scale influence in rough lubricated
contact is unavoidable. In this study a novel computational scheme for lubricated problem is …

Lubrication modeling has long been dominated by the well-established Patir and Cheng
flow factors method. The flow factors approach allows for accurate estimates of macroscale …

Aerostatic spindles are commonly employed in ultra-precision machines. The aerostatic
spindle, as a critical key component for the development of industrial ultra-precision grinding …

The present work deals with finite element method analysis of a multirecess hybrid spherical
journal bearing system. The governing equations have been discretized using Galerkin's …