Abstract
Nakamori et al. found experimentally that the friction between a partly polished diamond coating and a metal surface was drastically reduced to zero as relative speed was increased. It seems that diamond coating took off the counter surface because sliding became noiseless. This phenomenon shows the possibility of innovative air lubrication system. In the present work, we make the floating mechanism clear by using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. It is found that the phenomenon is peculiar to the high Knudsen number flows.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1153-1157 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | AIP Conference Proceedings |
| Volume | 1084 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | 26th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, RGD26 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: 2008 Jul 20 → 2008 Jul 25 |
Keywords
- Diamond coating
- DSMC method
- Molecular gas film lubrication
- Rarefied gas dynamics