Squeeze flow between finite plates (Q1818669)

The authors investigate the squeeze Newtonian flow between closely spaced plates of arbitrary size and shape, and show that the general solution includes an in-plane potential flow whose components satisfy Cauchy-Riemann conditions. The velocity field and the pressure are both determined by boundary conditions at the edges of the plates. In contrast, the velocity field in the infinite-plate limit requires boundary conditions only at the surfaces of the plates. It has been also shown that the infinite-plate problem is singular, and makes sense only as a limit of squeeze flows in finite geometries, each of which has a well-defined coordinate origin. Thus the analysis demonstrates the existence of a preferred origin and the significance of conditions at outer edges.