A model for micropolar fluid film mechanism with reference to human joints (Q1100062)

This paper analyzes the variation of pressure and load capacity with reference to load bearing human joints by introducing a continuously varying porosity model for lower plate instead of usual uniform mono or multi-layered models studied so far. A micropolar fluid film is taken as a lubricant. By suitable choice of non-dimensional porosity variation parameter \({\bar \alpha}\); it is shown that trends of variations are fairly in agreement with those recorded in earlier investigations.