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Self-Affine Elastic Contacts: Percolation and Leakage

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arxiv 1308.3449 v1 pith:CAI7P3TX submitted 2013-08-15 cond-mat.soft cond-mat.other

Self-Affine Elastic Contacts: Percolation and Leakage

Wolf B. Dapp , Andreas L\"ucke , Bo N. J. Persson , Martin H. M\"user This is my paper
classification cond-mat.soft cond-mat.other
keywords elasticcontactleakagecontactsdeformationpercolationself-affineapproaches
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We study fluid flow at the interfaces between elastic solids with randomly rough, self-affine surfaces. We show by numerical simulation that elastic deformation lowers the relative contact area at which contact patches percolate in comparison to traditional approaches to seals. Elastic deformation also suppresses leakage through contacts even far away from the percolation threshold. Reliable estimates for leakage can be obtained by combining Persson's contact mechanics theory with a slightly modified version of Bruggeman's effective-medium solution of the Reynolds equation.

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