The recent move toward physics-based elastohydrodynamics promises to yield advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of friction and film generation that were not possible a few years ago. However, the accurate correlation of the low-shear viscosity with temperature and pressure is an essential requirement. The Ashurst-Hoover thermodynamic scaling, which has been useful for thermal elastohydrodynamic simulation, is normalized here in a manner that maps the viscosity of three widely different liquids onto a master Stickel curve. The master curve can be represented by a combination of two exponential power law terms. These may be seen as expressions of different molecular interaction mechanisms similar to the two free-volume models of Batschinski-Hildebrand and Doolittle, respectively. The new correlation promises to yield more reasonable extrapolations to extreme conditions of temperature and pressure than free-volume models, and it removes the singularity that has prevented wide acceptance of free-volume models in numerical simulations.
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Lubricants
Normalized Ashurst-Hoover Scaling and a Comprehensive Viscosity Correlation for Compressed Liquids
Scott Bair,
e-mail: scott.bair@me.gatech.edu
Scott Bair
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Center for High-Pressure Rheology, Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
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Arno Laesecke
e-mail: Arno.Laesecke@Boulder.NIST.Gov
Arno Laesecke
Thermophysical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328
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Scott Bair
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Center for High-Pressure Rheology, Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405e-mail: scott.bair@me.gatech.edu
Arno Laesecke
Thermophysical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328e-mail: Arno.Laesecke@Boulder.NIST.Gov
J. Tribol. Apr 2012, 134(2): 021801 (8 pages)
Published Online: March 6, 2012
Article history
Received:
July 13, 2011
Accepted:
September 12, 2011
Online:
March 6, 2012
Published:
March 6, 2012
Citation
Bair, S., and Laesecke, A. (March 6, 2012). "Normalized Ashurst-Hoover Scaling and a Comprehensive Viscosity Correlation for Compressed Liquids." ASME. J. Tribol. April 2012; 134(2): 021801. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4005374
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