...Scott Bair; Wassim Habchi The concentrated contact formed between a steel ball and a glass disc—the optical elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHD) rig—has been the primary instrument for experimental investigations of elastohydrodynamic film thickness. It has been a source for values of pressure...

... + ( μ 1 G γ · ) 2 ] ( n - 1 ) / 2 , Λ p γ · ] 16 04 2012 09 11 2012 Under elastohydrodynamic (EHL) conditions, the temperature in the contact zone determines the load resistance of the lubricant film. Therefore, an efficient...

...Markus Hartinger; Marie-Laure Dumont; Stathis Ioannides; David Gosman; Hugh Spikes In this paper a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach for solving elastohydrodynamic lubrication using the freely available package OPENFOAM is introduced. The full Navier–Stokes equations are solved, which...

...Kazuyuki Yagi; Keiji Kyogoku; Tsunamitsu Nakahara This paper describes an experimental study on dimple formation under elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) conditions. The oil film thickness between a ball surface and a glass disk was measured using optical interferometry, and the temperatures...