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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Struct. 2007 Jun;85(11-14):1114–1120. doi: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.08.026

Table 2.

Parameters, dependent and independent variables (1 dyn=10-5 N).

Parameters
R= 1 cm, Radius
H1, H2, Outer bump geometry
n= 5, Number of sinusoidal waves
Solid and fluid Properties in Table 1
Dependent variables
δ, Roughness
hav, Average fluid thickness
hmin, Minimum fluid thickness at outer boundary
hmax, Maximum fluid thickness at outer boundary
T, Shear torque (dyn·cm)
μ, Friction coefficient
Independent Variables
ω, Angular velocity (rad/s)
Fn, Normal load (dyn)