**2. Materials and Methods**

Here a deterministic mixed lubrication model is developed; in this model, the lubrication is based on a limited amount of lubricant supplied to include the effect of starvation on friction in parallel sliding contacts. This is realized by combining a model calculating the film thickness in a sliding contact under starved conditions [57], with a deterministic asperity contact model to calculate and study the friction. The results are presented in Stribeck-like curves. By using this model, the frictional performance of starved lubricated contacts as a function of velocity and texturing parameters like cavity depth, size and density will be analysed, in particular within hydrodynamic and mixed lubrication regimes under starved conditions.
