ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
A non-empirical continuum-physics-based digital twin for boundary and mixed lubricated tribosystems (the LubeTwin) would revolutionize the design and operation of sliding contacts in machines. Today, reliable continuum models of thermo-elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication (TEHL) are routinely used for component design. However, these standard TEHL models are considered to be invalid when the sliding surfaces are not separated by a thick enough lubricant film. My preliminary work suggests that TEHL can then still be applied provided constitutive equations (CEs) are employed that consider finite-size effects such as slip and lubricant layering at walls. Based on my hypothesis that the Reynolds…
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