Existence of a solution to the line contact problem of elastohydrodynamic lubrication
HAMID BELLOUT a1 a1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA email: bellout@math.niu.edu
Abstract
We prove the existence of a solution to a free boundary value problem arising in elastohydrodynamic lubrication. Previously, the existence was proved only under severe restrictions on the range of the physical parameters. We remove those restrictions here.