Parametric Variational Principle of Viscoplastic Lubrication Model

An effective mathematical method to deal with the viscoplastic lubrication model is presented here by applying the parametric variational principle (Zhong, 1985). The plastic slippage of lubricant would occur at the lubricated surfaces under isothermal lubrication. The boundary tangential velocity, therefore, can be taken as the parametric vector (or the control vector) in variational process. The mathematical model of the original problem is finally reduced to a complementarity problem. The algorithm presented in this paper is simple and reliable and shows promise in engineering application.

Allowed and Forbidden n = 2?2 Transitions of the Elements Kr and Mo

Relativistic intermediate-coupling wavefunctions are used to evaluate transition energies, line strengths and transition probabilities for all allowed and forbidden n = 2-2 transitions for krypton and molybdenum beryllium-like ions. Our results are in very good agreement with those calculated using the relativistic multi-configuration Hartree-Fock approximation. These calculations were carried out under the same physical assumption that the dominant correlation effect is the n = 2 intra-shell correlation. We also discuss the importance of relativistic effects on the radial functions, the relativistic intermediate-coupling scheme in the variational process, the importance of radiative corrections for transition energies between states with different occupation of the 2s shell, and the relative importance of intra- versus inter-shell correlation effects.