Unsteady lubrication modeling of inlet zone in metal rolling processes

An unsteady lubrication model of inlet zone in metal rolling was established. The simulation computations show that for the variation amplitude of the inlet film thickness, the variation of the inlet angle contributes the largest, the surface mean speed contributes the second and the back tension stress the least. The higher the input frequency is, the smaller the amplitude output of the inlet film thickness will be. For a sinusoidal input, the inlet film thickness varies periodically but is not a sine wave because the system is not linear.