Tuning of frictional properties in torsional contact by means of disk grading

The contact of two surfaces in relative rotating motion occurs in many practical applications, from mechanical devices to human joints, displaying an intriguing interplay of effects at the onset of sliding due to the axisymmetric stress distribution. Theoretical and numerical models have been developed for some typical configurations, but work remains to be done to understand how to modify the emergent friction properties in this configuration. In this paper, we extend the two-dimensional (2D) spring-block model to investigate friction between surfaces in torsional contact. We investigate how the model describes the behavior of an elastic surface slowly rotating over a rigid substrate, comparing results with analytical calculations based on energy conservation. We show that an appropriate grading of the tribological properties of the surface can be used to avoid a non-uniform transition to sliding due to the axisymmetric configuration.

Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer Model for Nano-Bioconvection Stratified MHD Flow through an Elastic Surface: A Successive Relaxation Approach

The present study deals with the Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer model for bioconvection-stratified nanofluid flow through a porous elastic surface. The mathematical modeling for MHD nanofluid flow with motile gyrotactic microorganisms is formulated under the influence of an inclined magnetic field, Brownian motion, thermophoresis, viscous dissipation, Joule heating, and stratifi-cation. In addition, the momentum equation is formulated using the Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer model. Using similarity transforms, governing partial differential equations are reconstructed into ordinary differential equations. The spectral relaxation method (SRM) is used to solve the nonlinear coupled differential equations. The SRM is a straightforward technique to develop, because it is based on decoupling the system of equations and then integrating the coupled system using the Chebyshev pseudo-spectral method to obtain the required results. The numerical interpretation of SRM is admirable because it establishes a system of equations that sequentially solve by providing the results of the first equation into the next equation. The numerical results of temperature, velocity, concentration, and motile microorganism density profiles are presented with graphical curves and tables for all the governing parametric quantities. A numerical comparison of the SRM with the previously investigated work is also shown in tables, which demonstrate excellent agreement.

An $$L^2$$ approach to viscous flow in the half space with free elastic surface

We consider a linearized fluid-structure interaction problem, namely the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid in the half space $${\mathbb {R}}^n_+$$ R + n such that on the lower boundary a function h satisfying an undamped Kirchhoff-type plate equation is coupled to the flow field. Originally, h describes the height of an underlying nonlinear free surface problem. Since the plate equation contains no damping term, this article uses $$L^2$$ L 2 -theory yielding the existence of strong solutions on finite time intervals in the framework of homogeneous Bessel potential spaces. The proof is based on $$L^2$$ L 2 -Fourier analysis and also deals with inhomogeneous boundary data of the velocity field on the “free boundary” $$x_n=0$$ x n = 0 .

Approximations for the optimization problem for medical microneedle systems

Microneedle systems are used for transdermal (hypodermic) medicine injections at the treatment of different diseases. The efficiency of using such systems depends significantly on the size and parameters of microneedles. The problem of determining such dependencies and optimal parameters is considered as the problem of optimizing the interaction of microneedle systems with an elastic surface. Minimization problems for integral functional, whose solutions are approximations for solutions to the interaction problem, are obtained by the homogenization theory methods. Such problems are formulated in the form of classical problems with obstacles .