Advances in Mixed Lubrication
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 863
Special Issue Editors
Interests: engine tribology; mixed lubrication; rough surface contact; surface texturing; numerical simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mixed lubrication is the term applied to the transitional region between full hydrodynamic or elastohydrodynamic lubrication and boundary lubrication. In machine elements, rough surface contacts are often not dry and are lubricated by thin films. Machines are often subjected to extreme operating conditions such as high loading configurations, frequent start–stop conditions, starved lubrication, high temperatures, vibrations, and thin films. Both boundary lubrication and elastohydrodynamic lubrication are bridged together by mixed lubrication, which confirms local events such as solid-to-solid (asperity) contact. The movement of interacting surfaces generates friction forces, which are responsible for high heat generation, thereby causing increased energy loss and severe wear on the surface. Moreover, flow, pressure, stress distribution, friction, wear, and adhesion are significantly impacted by the roughness of interacting surfaces when under mixed lubrication. Understanding mixed lubrication is particularly important. The study of mixed lubrication processes such as fluid mechanisms, contact mechanisms, friction, and wear are such areas that require much improvement.
The aim of this Special Issue is to compile cutting-edge research from world-leading scientists working in the fields of tribology, covering a wide range of topics from theories to various applications, with respect to the areas that the keywords specify. Both theoretical and experimental investigations are highly welcome.
Dr. Chunxing Gu
Dr. Qin Dong
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- mixed lubrication
- friction
- wear
- fluid mechanics
- contact mechanics
- multiphysics modeling
- surface texturing
- surface roughness
- low-friction design
- tribological properties
