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Free-Surface Flow of Lubricating Greases
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Fluid and Experimental Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5294-1855
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Machine Elements.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4785-7098
SKF ERC, University of Twente/SKF ERC.
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2016 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

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.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016.
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Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics Tribology (Interacting Surfaces including Friction, Lubrication and Wear)
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Fluid Mechanics; Machine Elements
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-34367Local ID: 88a90512-6d63-4b60-9022-f0ea3070e1baOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-34367DiVA, id: diva2:1007617
Conference
STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition : 15/05/2016 - 19/05/2016
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Godkänd; 2016; 20160825 (andbra)Available from: 2016-09-30 Created: 2016-09-30 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved

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