Effect of fluid rheology on the thermal EHL under ZEV in line contact

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In this study, thermal EHL performances in line contact under zero entrainment velocity (ZEV) are investigated theoretically by employing Newtonian and Ree–Eyring fluid models. From high to modest surface velocity, both rheology models predict large classical surface dimple and the depth of the surface dimple increases with decrease of the surface velocity. However, if the surface velocity is further decreased, a smaller centralized dimple is obtained by using Ree–Eyring model similar to those point contact oil film shape observed in optical interferometric experiments. At lower surface velocity, the Newtonian model shows too poor convergence to predict such film shape. At last, the influence of the applied load on the centralized dimple is also studied.