A Two-Scale Approach for Lubricated Soft-Contact Modeling: An Application to Lip-Seal Geometry

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="412190.fig.001a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/at/volume-2012/412190/figures/412190.fig.001a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>  Initial configuration</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="412190.fig.001b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/at/volume-2012/412190/figures/412190.fig.001b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Deformed configuration</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Contact scheme: (a) reference geometry; (b) deformed geometry obtained by solving the fluid/solid contact problem.</table>

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