Free-Surface Flow of Lubricating Greases

• Grease lubrication is traditionally used in a great variety of mechanicalsystems such as rolling bearings, seals, and gears where it has beenshown more advantageous than oil, mainly due to its consistencyallowing the grease to stay inside the system and not leak out. Freesurface effects play an important role in rolling bearings and opengears as the configuration normally is filled with about 30% grease toavoid heavy churning. In this study an analytical model of thestationary uniform flow on a rotating disc is developed and validatedwith experiments. The model results in the velocity profile for the flowin the thin fully yielded viscous layer in connection to the surface aswell as an expression for the plug flow region on top of the viscouslayer. Experiments with two different greases having NLGI grade 1 and2 respectively shows it is possible to obtain a good fit with theanalytically obtained thickness using the rheological parameters foractual greases.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Strömningsmekanik och akustik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Tribologi (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Tribology (hsv//eng)

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Strömningslära

Fluid Mechanics

Maskinelement

Machine Elements

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