For inner radius , mean gap , fixed eccentricity parameter , gap , and inner angular velocity , the constant circumferential flux is
It follows by integrating the lubrication theory relation over a full period. The leading holding force is horizontal:
Integration by parts computes this force without a closed-form pressure. The fluid couples about the separate cylinder axes obey ; moments about a common axis balance exactly at this order.
Let the inner-centre displacement from a fixed outer centre have magnitude , with . The leading full-film journal bearing resistance to translation in the displacement direction and perpendicular to it is
For , the Reynolds lubrication equation gives radial squeezing flux and tangential squeezing flux . The additive constant enforces periodic pressure. Integrating the pressure traction gives these coefficients; at they coincide, as required by rotational symmetry.
A freely translating inner axle with prescribed positive angular velocity and downward load has full-film journal bearing force balance equations
where are the squeeze resistance of an eccentric journal bearing. Rotation supplies tangential fluid force . The equilibrium lies horizontally to the right and satisfies . Linearization there has imaginary eigenvalues: the prescribed rotating axle continuously supplies energy, so viscous dissipation does not imply settling. For an initially concentric axle, putting and gives the closed orbit
This follows by eliminating time and integrating . It applies to the leading inertia-free full-film model; adding cavitation, constraints or finite-length leakage changes the prediction.
Full-film journal bearing 2026-10-06
A full-film journal bearing model assumes that liquid fills the entire annular gap and that pressure is single-valued around a complete circumference. No cavitation boundary is imposed. The full-film eccentric journal-bearing rotation and full-film journal-bearing whirl formulas use this assumption; their predicted motion depends on keeping it.
Virial criterion for Joule-Thomson cooling Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
For , the coefficient is . On the stable dilute branch it is positive precisely when .
Jordan–Chevalley decomposition Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
Over an algebraically closed field, a linear operator has a unique decomposition into a commuting diagonalisable endomorphism and nilpotent endomorphism . On its generalized eigenspace for , set and . The Chinese remainder theorem makes both parts polynomials in , so they preserve every -invariant subspace. Uniqueness follows by restricting any other commuting decomposition to those generalized eigenspaces. Over a perfect field the semisimple part need only become diagonalizable after scalar extension.
A copula is a joint distribution function on a unit cube whose one-dimensional marginal distributions are uniform distributions. Applying each continuous marginal distribution to its random variable produces uniform marginals by the probability integral transform; their copula records the remaining dependence. Independent uniform coordinates and one common uniform coordinate give different copulas with the same marginals.
Jeans swindle 2026-10-06
The Jeans swindle is the removal of the unperturbed uniform density's gravitational field when treating an infinite homogeneous Newtonian medium as static. Without such subtraction or an external supporting prescription, a nonzero constant density and zero background gravitational acceleration cannot satisfy Poisson's equation. Linear perturbations then obey . This is a specified idealization, not an exact isolated infinite equilibrium.
Jeans instability with Yukawa gravity Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
For the screened attraction with , . A static homogeneous barotropic medium with sound speed has . A growing mode exists iff , with . For nonzero screening the growth rate tends to zero as ; the homogeneous mode is not an exponentially growing density fluctuation. Finite interaction range can therefore remove the instability entirely, while all sufficiently small nonzero wavenumbers remain unstable when the threshold is exceeded.
Jacobi fields from conjugation at a central endpoint Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
For a Lie group with a bi-invariant Riemannian metric, vary by conjugation: . Its Jacobi field is . If is central, all these fields vanish at both endpoints. Their space has dimension , since the kernel is the centralizer of an element of a Lie algebra.
Jackson operator estimate 2026-10-06
For , evenness and unit mass reduce the error to an integral of second differences. The Jackson kernel bound and the scaling inequality for the second modulus of smoothness yield . Since the degree is , a degree- estimate uses . For this gives .
Hasse-Minkowski theorem 2026-10-06
A nondegenerate quadratic form over a number field is isotropic if and only if it is isotropic over every completion. Over , these are the real field and all P-adic numbers. It turns a rational existence problem into local tests; denominators can then be cleared for an integral homogeneous equation.
For a surface of revolution whose induced metric is , with and smooth on a coordinate interval, define . Then and the conformal factor gives . This proves the rescaled metric is locally the Euclidean metric without solving a curvature equation. Poles and places where is not a coordinate must be treated in other charts; the angular coordinate is also understood locally.
Isometry group Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-25
The isometry group of a metric space consists of its bijective isometries, with composition as the group operation. For a Riemannian metric, these are the diffeomorphisms preserving the metric tensor. Right translations of a right-invariant Riemannian metric supply a faithful subgroup isomorphic to the underlying Lie group.
For initially well-separated Kerr black holes with no orbital angular momentum, exact axisymmetry gives . Put . The black-hole area theorem and the irreducible mass identity imply
Indeed, , and is nondecreasing for . Opposite spin signs lower at fixed initial areas and hence raise the allowed radiated-energy bound; this need not be achievable in an actual merger.
For an irrational skew shift, the averages of every continuous function converge uniformly in the starting point to , with normalized Lebesgue measure. Nonconstant Fourier basis characters have either linear or quadratic phases. Linear phases are bounded geometric series; for quadratic phases the Van der Corput inequality for finite scalar sequences reduces to linear correlations of irrational frequency, uniformly in the starting point. Approximation by trigonometric polynomials proves the assertion and identifies every invariant Borel probability measure as .
Greenhouse effect 2026-10-06
An atmosphere that absorbs and reemits thermal radiation can reduce outgoing energy at a given surface temperature, requiring a warmer surface to balance absorbed stellar energy. The planetary equilibrium temperature refers to the radiation budget, not the resulting surface temperature. Water, carbon dioxide and clouds can alter this balance.
Hazel model 2026-10-06
The Hazel model is a smooth stratified shear flow whose base velocity has a hyperbolic-tangent profile and whose squared buoyancy frequency has a hyperbolic-secant-squared profile. The equal-width nondimensional example is and . For , its gradient Richardson number is , with minimum .
Three-layer stratified piecewise-linear shear flow Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
This three-layer shear flow has and density between . Above and below, the velocity is the corresponding constant , and the mass density is . The density drops and vorticity jumps coincide at both interfaces. Its hydrodynamic stability involves coupled gravity-vorticity interface waves, unlike a profile with uniform shear extending through all three layers.
Vorticity-sheet eigenfunction of inviscid Couette flow Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
Let be the Dirichlet Green function of on , with :
It is continuous and has derivative jump one, so . The Dirac delta multiplication identity gives , proving it is a generalized eigenfunction of the inviscid Couette continuous spectrum. Integrating reconstructs the evolving vertical velocity from its initial vorticity.

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