Numerical simulation of Reynolds equation using of Microsoft Excel

Abstract

We have proposed a method to solve a differential equation using the spreadsheet function of Microsoft Excel. An advantage of this method is simplicity because the same procedure can be followed to solve an ordinary differential equation or partial differential equation. Using this method, second order ordinary differential equation with boundary conditions and time dependent Reynolds equation for gas lubrication problem was solved numerically. The results obtained by the method are in good agreement with exact solution.