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977
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  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Scott Bair is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a particular focus on mechanical engineering and related subfields.

Their research spans several subfields including mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, fluid flow and transfer processes, materials chemistry, and biomedical engineering. The main topics of their work include tribology and lubrication engineering, gear and bearing dynamics analysis, adhesion, friction, and surface interactions, rheology and fluid dynamics studies, lubricants and their additives, material dynamics and properties, and phase equilibria and thermodynamics.

Scott Bair's publication record features multiple papers across prominent journals in tribology and related engineering disciplines. Recent papers include:

  • "Evaluation of Methods for Viscosity Simulations of Lubricants at Different Temperatures and Pressures: A Case Study on PAO-2" (2021) in Tribology Transactions
  • "Fractional Walden rule for aprotic ionic liquids: Experimental verification over a wide range of temperatures and pressures" (2021) in Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • "Quantifying the inlet pressure and shear stress of elastohydrodynamic lubrication" (2023) in Tribology International
  • "The unresolved definition of the pressure-viscosity coefficient" (2022) in Scientific Reports
  • "Quantitative Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication-Seventeen Years In" (2024) in Journal of Tribology

Frequent coauthors in Scott Bair's research include Wassim Habchi, Petr Šperka, Marian Paluch, Thomas J. Zolper, and Kyle Horne. These collaborations point to a network of research within tribology and lubrication studies.

The scientist has published extensively across several notable venues, including:

  • Journal of Tribology
  • Tribology International
  • Tribology Letters
  • Tribology Transactions
  • Lubricants

Scott Bair was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2002, recognizing contributions to the field.

Best Publications

  • A Rheological Model for Elastohydrodynamic Contacts Based on Primary Laboratory Data

    Scott Bair;W. O. Winer

  • Shear strength measurements of lubricants at high pressure

    Scott Bair;W. O. Winer

  • Thermodynamic scaling of the viscosity of van der Waals, H-bonded, and ionic liquids

    C. M. Roland;S. Bair;R. Casalini

  • An Application of a Free Volume Model to Lubricant Rheology I—Dependence of Viscosity on Temperature and Pressure

    S. Yasutomi;S. Bair;W. O. Winer

  • The High Pressure High Shear Stress Rheology of Liquid Lubricants

    S. Bair;W. O. Winer

  • Comparison of Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics with Experimental Measurements in the Nonlinear Shear-Thinning Regime

    Scott Bair;Clare McCabe;Clare McCabe;Peter T. Cummings;Peter T. Cummings

  • Influence of pressure and temperature dependence of thermal properties of a lubricant on the behaviour of circular TEHD contacts

    Wassim Habchi;Philippe Vergne;Scott Bair;O. Andersson

  • Some Observations in High Pressure Rheology of Lubricants

    S. Bair;W. O. Winer

  • A Quantitative Solution for the Full Shear-Thinning EHL Point Contact Problem Including Traction

    Yuchuan Liu;Q. Jane Wang;Scott Bair;Philippe Vergne

  • Glass Transitions in Lubricants: Its Relation to Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication (EHD)

    M. Alsaad;S. Bair;D. M. Sanborn;W. O. Winer

  • The High Shear Stress Rheology of Liquid Lubricants at Pressures of 2 to 200 MPa

    S. Bair;W. O. Winer

  • Pressure-Viscosity Relationships for Elastohydrodynamics

    Scott Bair;Peter Kottke

  • Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Point Contacts Using a Newtonian/Generalized Newtonian Lubricant

    W. Habchi;D. Eyheramendy;S. Bair;P. Vergne

  • Chirurgische Flüssigstrahl-Schneidvorrichtung

    Bair Scott

  • The Pressure-Viscosity Coefficient for Newtonian EHL Film Thickness With General Piezoviscous Response

    Scott Bair;Yuchuan Liu;Q. Jane Wang

  • Reference liquids for quantitative elastohydrodynamics: selection and rheological characterization

    Scott Bair

  • High-pressure rheology of lubricants and limitations of the Reynolds equation

    Scott Bair;Michael Khonsari;W.O. Winer

  • The temperature, pressure and time dependence of lubricant viscosity

    Scott Bair;Jacek Jarzynski;Ward O. Winer

  • On friction regimes in quantitative elastohydrodynamics

    Wassim Habchi;Wassim Habchi;Scott Bair;Philippe Vergne

  • Method and apparatus for thermal phacoemulsification by fluid throttling

    Scott Bair

Frequent Co-Authors

Ward O. Winer
Ward O. Winer Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael M. Khonsari
Michael M. Khonsari Louisiana State University
Martin Hartl
Martin Hartl Brno University of Technology
Riccardo Casalini
Riccardo Casalini United States Naval Research Laboratory
Clare McCabe
Clare McCabe Vanderbilt University
Peter T. Cummings
Peter T. Cummings Heriot-Watt University
C. M. Roland
C. M. Roland United States Naval Research Laboratory
Roland Larsson
Roland Larsson Luleå University of Technology
Ashlie Martini
Ashlie Martini University of California, Merced
Q. Jane Wang
Q. Jane Wang Northwestern University

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