This paper presents the results of a transient analysis of thermal elastohydrodynamic lubrication (TEHL) of a rough cylinder on a rough flat surface in line contact with non-Newtonian lubricant blended with Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles. The simultaneous systems of time-dependent modified Reynolds equation, elasticity equation and energy equation with initial conditions were solved numerically using multigrid multilevel with full approximation technique. In this study, the effect of Al 2 O 3 nanoparticle additives, surface roughness and sudden overload on TEHL of two surfaces in line contact were examined. The minimum film thickness and the pressure spike increase slightly with an increase in nanoparticle concentration. For TEHL with Al 2 O 3 nanoparticle additives, the film temperature increases very little due to thermal enhancement of nanofluids.

This paper presents the effect of Al2O3nanoparticles additives on thermoelastohy-drodynamic with Newtonian lubricant. The modified Reynolds equation and energy equation have been formulated and solved numerically with initial conditions using multi-grid multi-level method. Simulation results show the operating with Al2O3nanoparticles blended particularly with SAE-90 lubricant. The maximum pressure and temperature decreases, as compared to SAE-90 oil without nanoparticles additives.

This paper presents the static characteristics of two surfaces in line contact under TEHL with non-Newtonian lubricant. Modified Reynolds equation, elastic equation and energy equation were formulated to obtain the model. The model was simulated based on numerical method by using Newton-Raphson and multigrid multilevel techniques. The static characteristics of the two surfaces in line contact under TEHL such as film pressure, film thickness and film temperature profiles in the contact region were examined at various loads, speeds, roller radius and elastic modulus respectively. The results showed the significant effect of load, elastic modulus and surface velocity on the TEHL for machine element operated at severe conditions.

This paper presents the performance characteristics of two surfaces in line contact under isothermal mixed lubrication with non-Newtonian liquid–solid lubricant base on Power law viscosity model. The time dependent Reynolds equation, elastic equation and viscosity equation were formulated for compressible fluid. Newton-Raphson method and multigrid technique were implemented to obtain film thickness profiles, friction coefficient and load carrying in the contact region at various roughness amplitudes, applied loads, speeds and the concentration of solid lubricant. The simulation results showed that roughness amplitude has a significant effect on the film pressure, film thickness and surface contact pressure in the contact region. The film thickness decrease but friction coefficient and asperities load rapidly increases when surface roughness amplitude increases or surface speed decreases. When the concentration of solid lubricant increased, friction coefficient and asperities load decrease but traction and film thickness increase.

The two infinitely long surfaces in line contact under thermoelastohydrodynamic lubrication with solid-liquid lubricants were investigated. The time-dependent modified Reynolds equation elasticity equation and the adiabatic energy equation have been formulated and solved numerically with initial conditions using multi-grid multi-level method with full approximation technique. The characteristics of the two surfaces in line contact under thermoelastohydrodynamic lubrication were presented as; film pressure, film temperature and oil film thickness profiles. The results of solid-liquid lubricants with micro-particle and nano-particle under thermal elastohydrohynamic lubrication were compared with the case of pure liquid lubricant.