Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view.

The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several most important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author's own researches. Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surfaces, theoretical and experimental analyses of temperature rise in bearings, those of turbulent lubricating film using the k-epsilon model.

Important subjects studied by the author, such as stability of a multi-bearing shaft, seismic effects on oil whip, a limit cycle in an unstable region of a rotating shaft, sinusoidal squeeze phenomena, detailed experiments on temperature distribution in bearings, application of the k-epsilon model to turbulent flow in lubricating films have not been discussed in the rival literatures

Inhalt
Friction, Wear, and Lubrication.- Foundations of Hydrodynamic Lubrication.- Fundamentals of Journal Bearings.- Fundamentals of Thrust Bearings.- Stability of a Rotating Shaft Oil Whip.- Foil Bearings.- Squeeze Film.- Heat Generation and Temperature Rise.- Turbulent Lubrication.