Flow and thermal characteristics of a circular porous slider bearing

An incompressible newtonian fluid is forced through the porous bottom of a circular slider which is moving laterally on a horizontal plane. The effects of mass injection and lateral velocity on the heat generated by viscous dissipation are investigated by solving the governing boundary layer equations using numerical integration techniques. Numerical results are presented for the velocity and temperature distributions as well as for the wall derivatives of the velocity and thermal functions. The range of Prandtl numbers investigated varies from 0.7 to 10 while the cross-flow Reynolds numbers and translational Reynolds numbers range from 0.01 to 50 and 1 to 1000 respectively.