Lubricated Sliding of a Rigid Cylinder on a Viscoelastic Half Space

We study the lubricated sliding of a rigid cylinder on a viscoelastic half space with a single characteristic retardation time. Besides the generalized inverse Hersey number $\beta , which is the sole parameter governing elastic lubrication, the viscoelastic lubrication solution depends on two additional dimensionless parameters: \alpha and f . \alpha is the characteristic retardation time divided by the time for the rigid...