Abstract
”To mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road. (Opening address to the Mechanical Science Section, Meeting of the British Association, Manchester.)” Osborne Reynolds. Lubricants are divided into two types, liquid lubricants, and gaseous lubricants. They are used to minimize frictional wear in mechanical systems and improve the efficiency and life span of mechanical systems. There is a little over 10,000 different types of lubricants throughout the world, with liquid lubrication being the most dominant and most studied type of lubricant, liquid lubricants include but are not limited to synthetic oils and petroleum oils.
M.Sc. (Pure and Applied Mathematics)