Full-film eccentric journal-bearing rotation

For inner radius $a$, mean gap $\Delta \ll a$, fixed eccentricity parameter $|\alpha |<1$, gap $h=\Delta (1+\alpha \sin \theta )$, and inner angular velocity $\Omega$, the constant circumferential flux isIt follows by integrating the lubrication theory relation $p_s=6\mu \Omega a/h^2-12\mu q/h^3$ 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 $C_i+C_o=\alpha \Delta F_x$; moments about a common axis balance exactly at this order.