PLANE HYDRODYNAMIC PROBLEM
FOR VISCOELASTIC LUBRICATION
O. Yu. Dinariev

UDC 519.6

The Reynolds theory of a one-dimensional hydrodynamic 
problem of lubrication, when the liquid is viscoelastic with an arbitrary 
relaxation core, is generalized. On the basis of a qualitative and 
numerical analysis, it is shown that the effect of relaxation leads 
to expansion of the pressure distribution and to a decrease in the 
carrying capacity of a lubricating layer.

Institute of the Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy 
of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; email: dinariev@mail.ru. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 169-172, 
May-June, 2001. Original article submitted October 24, 2000.

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