Abstract
A unified mathematical treatment of thick and thin film elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems is presented. The construction of approximate solutions is discussed by using Ritz-Galerkin methods with piecewise polynomial basis functions. In particular for the line contact problem, smooth Hermite and cubic spline spaces are used to obtain solutions over a wide load-speed range. Pressure ‘spikes’ are obtained.

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