Regime
Set by the film's aspect ratio — one length small enough to delete inertia
Every figure drawn under this hypothesis — 35 of them — with the essay each one belongs to and the generator that drew it.
35 figure placements state this regime. The strip along the foot of every figure names two things — the model that produced it and the regime it holds in — and this listing is read back out of the finished drawing rather than from what produced it.
- A cushion that changes its physics — two asymptotes — accurate far from the crossover, not at it · ground-effect · hero
- A cushion that changes its physics — two asymptotes — accurate far from the crossover, not at it · ground-effect
- A cushion that changes its physics — a squeeze film in a thin gap — the crossover of two limits, not a solution between them · ground-effect
- A cushion that changes its physics — two asymptotes — accurate far from the crossover, not at it · ground-effect
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film — the profile is exact wherever inertia is negligible · bearing-film
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film at every point on the curve — the ratio is the hypothesis · bearing-film
- The cushion that is there after all — any Reynolds number — inviscid, and the squeeze term is a lubrication limit · ground-effect · hero
- The cushion that is there after all — any Reynolds number — inviscid, and the squeeze term is a lubrication limit · ground-effect
- The gap that carries the most — a thin film — inertia is absent, and any Reynolds number based on the film · viscous-exact · hero
- The gap that carries the most — a thin film — inertia is absent, and any Reynolds number based on the film · viscous-exact
- The gap that carries the most — a thin film; the bracket contains nothing dimensional · viscous-exact
- The gap that carries the most — a thin film with no inertia · viscous-exact
- The last of the oil — a thin film under a constant load — inertia and roughness are both absent · bearing-film
- The last of the oil — a thin film at a constant approach speed — no cavitation, no roughness · bearing-film
- The last of the oil — a thin film under a constant load — inertia and roughness are both absent · bearing-film
- The last of the oil — a thin film at every point on the curve — the ratio is the hypothesis · bearing-film
- Where a pure number comes from — a thin film — the bracket contains nothing dimensional · regime-exact
- What a plate takes with it — water at 20 °C, Ca from 10⁻⁶ to 10⁻² — lubrication theory throughout · coating-film
- The drop a no-slip wall would never let spread — water, θ = 30° — Ca = 1.4 × 10⁻⁵, thin-film Stokes flow · coating-film
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film — h/B is 5.0e-4, so inertia is absent · bearing-film · hero
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film — h/B is 5.0e-4, so inertia is absent · bearing-film
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film — h/B is 5.0e-4 on both · bearing-film
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film — inertia is absent, and h/B here is 5.0e-4 · bearing-film
- The cheapest shape the walls allow — a thin film — inertia is absent, and h/B here is 5.0e-4 · bearing-film
- The exact theory, drawn by viscosity — a thin film — inertia is absent, and h/B here is 5.0e-4 · bearing-film
- The film that heats itself — a thin film — h/B is 5.0e-4, so inertia is absent · bearing-film
- The last of the oil — a thin film — h/B is 5.0e-4, so inertia is absent · bearing-film
- The drop a no-slip wall would never let spread — Ca = 0.001 — thin film, Stokes flow, lengths in slip lengths · coating-film
- Nothing but the shape of the gap — a thin film — h/a is 5.0e-3, so inertia is absent · bearing-film
- The last of the oil — a thin film — h/a is 5.0e-3, so inertia is absent · bearing-film · hero
- The last of the oil — a thin film — h/a is 5.0e-3, so inertia is absent · bearing-film
- What a plate takes with it — Ca ≪ 1 and a film Reynolds number below one — surface tension against viscosity · coating-film
- The gap that carries the most — a thin film — the ratio carries a factor h2/B and nothing else dimensional · viscous-exact
- A cushion that changes its physics — water at 20 °C, a squeeze film — the sum is a construction with both limits right · ground-effect
- A cushion that changes its physics — water at 20 °C, a squeeze film — the handover is where the two asymptotes cross · ground-effect