Cavitational Film-Splitting of Lubricants
2003-01-3118
10/27/2003
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- Content
- We report work in which an oil film is stretched between a moving colloid sphere and a static plane surface. Under some circumstances, when the sphere and the surface are pulled apart sufficiently rapidly, an unexpected transient decrease of the sphere-surface separation is recorded. Numerical simulations indicate that cavitation bubble growth may result in the development of sufficient tension to account for this phenomenon: a finding confirmed by separate acoustic experiments and high speed microphotographic work.
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- Citation
- Barrow, M., Al-Hussany, A., Williams, R., and Williams, P., "Cavitational Film-Splitting of Lubricants," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-3118, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-3118.