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Convective Inertia Effects On The Squeeze Film Between Rectangular Parallel Plates, Sikiru Adigun Sanni

Turkish Journal of Physics

This paper investigates the effects of convective inertia on the lubricating characteristics of the squeeze film between parallel rectangular plates. Relaxing a simplifying assumption of the conventional lubrication theory, the paper retains some terms of the convective inertia terms of the Navier-Stokes equations, leading to a derivation of a modified Reynolds equation. The introduction of the convective inertia terms induces two inversely related dimensionless parameters, m and R (the Reynolds number), into the characteristics of the flow behavior. The dimensionless normal (or squeezing) velocity increases monotonically from the lower plate to the upper plate for given value of R. At …