Recently, surface texturing methods are applied to reduce friction and improve reliability of machine components such as parallel thrust bearings, mechanical face seals and piston rings etc. In this study, a thermohydrodynamic (THD) lubrication analys...
Recently, surface texturing methods are applied to reduce friction and improve reliability of machine components such as parallel thrust bearings, mechanical face seals and piston rings etc. In this study, a thermohydrodynamic (THD) lubrication analysis is carried out to investigate the effect of dimple shapes on the lubrication characteristics of hydraulic machine components using a commercial computational fluid dynamics(CFD) code, FLUENT. The results show that the streamline, pressure and temperature distributions, friction force, load capacity and leakage for different dimple elliptical ratios.