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On the flash temperature in accelerated sliding contacts
Bo N J Persson1,2,3
1Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
The temperature increase in the contact regions between solids in sliding contact can easily reach several hundred Kelvin and thereby dramatically affect friction and wear. Here I extend an earlier multiscale theory for the flash temperature (Müser and Persson 2026 On the flash temperature in sliding contacts (arXiv:) Phys. Rev. B (in press)) to the case of accelerated motion, and present numerical results illustrating the theory.
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