期刊论文

Li, Xin Kai

英文

Applied Mathematical Modelling

0307-904X

2011

35

5

2309-2323

10.1016/j.apm.2010.11.003

The authors are indebted for many discussions with colleagues in the Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University. XKL and LYS are partially supported by an open project (09RM01) by the Centre South University of Forestry and Technology, China. RZ is supported by the grant from Southern Yangtze University, China .

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A long-standing theoretical and practical problem, whether the viscoelasticity can have a measurable and beneficial effect on lubrication performance characteristics, is readdressed in this paper. The upper convected Maxwell model is chosen to study the influence of viscoelasticity on lubricant thin film flows. By employing characteristic lubricant relaxation times in an order of magnitude analysis, a perturbation method is developed for analysing the flow of a Maxwell lubricant between two narrow surfaces. The effect of viscoelasticity on the ...