Abstract
The issueofthermalmanagementoftwocomponentsslidingagainsteachotherplaysanimportantrole
in theproperfunctioningofthemachinecomponents.Jaeger,usinghisandBlok’shypotheses,
presented thecurvestocomputetheaverageandthemaximumtemperatureriseinsquareandband
shaped interfaces.Itisoftenobservedthatdesignersrefertothosecurveseveninscenarioswhenthe
contactgeometryisdifferent.Inmanycases,amoreaccuratetemperaturedistributionisneededand
using aconstantheatpartitiontoevaluatethetemperatureriseattheinterfacecanleadtoover-design
or under-designofthecomponents.Inthisstudytheauthorsapplyarecentlydevelopedmethodology
of obtainingthetemperaturedistributionattheinterfaceoftwoslidingsemi-infinitebodiesby
partitioningtheheatbetweentheminsuchawaythatthetemperatureateverypointintheinterfaceis
same forboththebodies.Ellipticalcontactswithasemi-ellipsoidalheatdistributionareconsidered.In
order toaiddesigners,curvefitequationsarepresentedtocalculatemaximumtemperatureandaverage
temperatureriseinnon-dimensionalformoverawiderangeofPecletnumbers,thermalconductivity
ratios andellipticityratios.