Cheg 355 - Lecture Notes - Oct. 14, 2004
Announcements
Class notes
Scanned Notes
The main points of the lecture were
Goals:
After this class you should be able to:
- Scale the transport equations to get the Reynolds Lubrication Equation.
- Apply this equation to calculate the forces in simple lubrication flows.
Reading
- The class notes.
- BS&L, chapter 4
- Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics: Work through Kinematics: Pathlines.
Additional Readings:
Lubrication flows are just one example of flows at low Reynolds numbers where
inertia may be neglected. One active area of research in low Re system is the field of
microfluidics, in which chemical laboratories are reduced to a microscale and reactants
are pumped around through microchannels etched on a chip. An article describing
some of the applications of such flows is given
here.
Demonstration:
Lubrication: Detachment of a Disk From a Plane
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