Discover the hidden ways air and water degrade lubricants and cause unexpected failures in manufacturing operations.

By demonstrating that cavitation in complex anisotropic fluids can be triggered at Re ≃ 10 −3 –a hydrodynamic Stokes flow regime, our work complements earlier reports on hydrodynamic ...

Hydrodynamic bearings wear very slowly. Wear occurs during start-up and slowdown when speed is too low to produce sufficient fluid pressure to support the bearing surfaces on a lubricant film.