ABSTRACT
In applied mechanics courses, descriptions of lubrication theory are usually limited to the ™at case (all sections in direction perpendicular to the velocity behave in the same way); this means in—nite length. In practice, both for thrust Michell bearings and journal bearings, we deal with —nite, indeed rather small lengths, that is, with dimensions perpendicular to the velocity comparable to either of the remaining ones (i.e., the length of the journal is comparable to its diameter).
