Investigation of Couple Stress Fluid and Surface Roughness Effects in the Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Problems using Wavelet-Based Decoupled Method

Abstract: The standard decoupled method with Newton-generalized minimum residual procedure performs poorly or may break down when used to solve certain elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems. The authors Zargari et al., 2007 presented decoupled and coupled methods in which the limitations of the decoupled method for some set of physical parameters and slight variation in these values (physical parameters) give a non-convergence solution. To overcome this aspect the wavelet-based preconditioners technique is used in this paper to solve the elastohydrodynamic lubrication problem. The effect of coupled stress fluids on elastohydrodynamic lubrication behavior in smooth, as well as rough, contact is investigated using the proposed method, numerically, in a low-speed-high load condition. The elastohydrodynamic lubrication characteristics computed for couple stress fluids are found to have strong dependence on the couple stress parameter, which shows the versatility and applicability of the proposed method.