Experimental Study of the Interfacial Slip on Hydrodynamic Lubrication Under Different Wettabilities

ABSTRACT This article presents an experimental study about boundary slippage on the film thickness of hydrodynamic lubrication (HL) using a custom‐made slider‐on‐disc bearing testing apparatus. The interfaces with different affinity were obtained by surface energy modification of sliders with variou...

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Published in:Lubrication science 2024-11, Vol.36 (7), p.500-510
Main Authors: Han, Suli, Guo, Feng, Shao, Jing, Wang, Qian, Li, Xinming, Jin, Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Contact angle
Contact stresses
Film thickness
Heterogeneity
hydrodynamic lubrication
interface slippage
Lubricants
Lubricants & lubrication
Lubrication
photobleached imaging
Shear rate
Shear stress
Slip velocity
Slippage
Spatial heterogeneity
Surface energy
Surface properties
Thickness measurement
Velocity
Velocity distribution
velocity profile
Wettability
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Summary:ABSTRACT This article presents an experimental study about boundary slippage on the film thickness of hydrodynamic lubrication (HL) using a custom‐made slider‐on‐disc bearing testing apparatus. The interfaces with different affinity were obtained by surface energy modification of sliders with various oleophobic coatings, which are characterised by their contact angle (CA) and contact angle hysteresis (CAH). To study the mechanism of interfacial slip on HL under different wettability constraints, the film thickness and velocity profiles under shear were measured using interference and fluorescence photobleached method, respectively. The results showed that the CAH could better characterise the influence of interface effect on the film thickness of HL, which was explained by the correlation between CAH and the interface potential barrier. Furthermore, it was found that the slip velocity increased with lubricant viscosity and shear rate, which can be explained by the spatial heterogeneity of the flow in conformal contact and the critical shear stress slip model.
ISSN:0954-0075
1557-6833
DOI:10.1002/ls.1709