Fluid Film Lubrication

Discusses the significant advances made within the last decade in the area of fluid film lubrication and its applications.

Andras Z. Szeri (Author)

9780521898232, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 December 2010

564 pages, 239 b/w illus. 35 tables
25.1 x 19.1 x 2 cm, 1.14 kg

"The second edition is an addition rather than a revision to the 1998 work. It is a comprehensive reference book, covering theoretical and analytical aspects of fluid film lubrication Szeri is eminently qualified to address this complex topic..Highly recommend." - CHOICE

Fluid film bearings are machine elements that should be studied within the broader context of tribology. The three subfields of tribology - friction, lubrication, and wear - are strongly interrelated. The last decade has witnessed significant advances in the area of fluid film lubrication and its applications, and this second edition offers a look at some of these advances. This edition adds to the fundamentals of fluid film lubrication, a discourse on surface effects and the inclusion of treatment of flow with significant inertia within the section on turbulence. Basic ideas of the multigrid method are conveyed along with multilevel multi-integration in the treatment of elastohydrodynamic lubrication. New chapters have been included on ultra-thin films, both liquid and gaseous, and lubrication of articulating joints and their replacement. Some of the most recent literature is discussed.

1. Introduction
2. Basic equations
3. Thick-film lubrication
4. Dynamic properties of lubricant films
5. Effects of fluid inertia
6. Flow stability and transition
7. Turbulence
8. Elastrohydrodynamic lubrication
9. Thermal effects
10. Lubrication with non-newtonian fluids
11. Gas lubrication
12. Molecularly thin films
13. Biotribology.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Tribology [friction & lubrication TGBF], Fluid mechanics [PHDF]