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. JEPTER74920200115 JEPTER7492015