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Lubrication regimes
Lubrication regimes are the distinct modes of interaction between a lubricant and surfaces in relative motion, classified as boundary, mixed, hydrodynamic, and elastohydrodynamic, and mapped on the Stribeck curve.
Lubrizol
Lubrizol is an American specialty chemical company headquartered in Wickliffe, Ohio, best known for lubricant and fuel additives, and a wholly owned Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary since 2011.
Lubuntu
Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor using the lightweight LXQt desktop, first released in 2010. It shares Ubuntu's repositories and release schedule while targeting older hardware.
Lubyanka Building
The Lubyanka (Лубя́нка) is the building on Lubyanka Square in Moscow that has housed Soviet and Russian secret police from the Cheka and KGB to today's FSB, with a famous internal prison.
Luca Bertossio
Luca Bertossio is an Italian glider aerobatics pilot who won the 2015 FAI World Air Games title in Dubai and flies as a Boeing 737 captain.
Lucas Heights, New South Wales
Lucas Heights, New South Wales is a suburb in southern Sydney and the site of ANSTO's campus, home to the OPAL reactor and most of Australia's nuclear medicine production.
Lucas–Kanade method
The Lucas–Kanade method is a widely used computer vision technique for image alignment and optical flow, introduced in 1981 by Bruce Lucas and Takeo Kanade of Carnegie-Mellon University.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was an American telecommunications equipment company, including Bell Laboratories, spun off from AT&T in 1996; once the world's largest equipment maker, it merged into France's Alcatel in 2006.
Luchegorsky Coal Mine
The Luchegorsky Coal Mine (Лучегорский угольный разрез) is an open-pit brown coal mine in Luchegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia, opened in 1973 to fuel the Primorskaya GRES power station.
Lucid Air
The Lucid Air, also called the Lucid Motors Air, is a luxury electric sedan from Lucid Group, delivered since 2021 and known for its class-leading range and efficiency.
Lucid Motors
Lucid Motors, also known as Lucid Group and formerly Atieva, is an American electric vehicle maker based in Newark, California, building the Air sedan and Gravity SUV.
Lucien A. Schmit Jr.
Lucien A. Schmit Jr. (1928–2018) was an American aerospace engineer regarded as the father of structural optimization for his 1960 paper combining finite element analysis with nonlinear programming.
Lucien C. Malavard
Lucien Malavard (1910–1990) was a French aeronautical engineer known for flow visualization and analog computation, who founded the CNRS laboratory LIMSI and joined the US National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Lucknow Junction railway station
Lucknow Junction (LJN, Chhoti Line, लखनऊ जंक्शन) is a North Eastern Railway terminus station in Lucknow's Charbagh, opened 15 February 1926, with six terminal platforms beside Northern Railway's Lucknow Charbagh (LKO).
Lucknow Metro (लखनऊ मेट्रो)
Lucknow Metro (लखनऊ मेट्रो) is a rapid transit system serving Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, India, operated by UPMRCL, with its first line opened between 2017 and 2019.
Lucky iron fish
The Lucky Iron Fish is a fish-shaped iron ingot boiled in cooking liquid to release iron against iron deficiency anemia, developed at the University of Guelph.
Lucky Strike
Lucky Strike is an American cigarette brand registered in 1871, known for the red bull's-eye pack and slogans like "It's Toasted," and owned since 1994 by British American Tobacco.
Lucozade
Lucozade is a British soft drink brand created in 1927 as a glucose recovery drink for sick people and repositioned as an energy drink from the 1980s.
Lucy (spacecraft)
Lucy, also known as NASA Lucy, is a NASA spacecraft launched in 2021 on a 12-year mission, the first to visit the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
Luda 21-2/16-3 Oil Field
Luda 21-2/16-3 Oil Field (旅大21-2/16-3) is an offshore oil field in Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea under Tianjin, China, operated by CNOOC and producing since 2020.
Luda 4-2 Oil Field
Luda 4-2 Oil Field (旅大4-2) is an offshore heavy oil field in Liaodong Bay, China's Bohai Sea, discovered in 2002 and producing since 2005, operated by CNOOC.
Luda 5-2N Oil Field
Luda 5-2N Oil Field (旅大5-2北油田, also written Luda 5-2 North) is an offshore ultra-heavy oil field in Liaodong Bay, China's Bohai Sea, operated by CNOOC Limited.
Ludendorff Bridge
The Ludendorff Bridge, or Remagen Bridge, was a steel railway bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, captured intact by American forces on 7 March 1945.
Ludila hydroelectric plant
Ludila hydroelectric plant (鲁地拉水电站) is a 2,160 MW run-of-river hydropower station on the Jinsha River, the upper Yangtze, in Yunnan, China, the seventh of eight cascade stations and operated by China Huadian.
Ludington Pumped Storage Plant
The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility on Lake Michigan near Ludington, Michigan, built between 1969 and 1973, and once the largest in the world.
Ludlow Castle
Ludlow Castle is a partly ruined medieval fortress in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, probably founded by Walter de Lacy around 1075 and later home to the Council in the Marches.
Ludwig F. Lischer
Ludwig F. Lischer was an American electric power engineer who spent his career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, rising to vice president in charge of system planning.
Ludwig J. Gauckler
Ludwig J. Gauckler is a Swiss-based materials scientist in ceramics, professor emeritus of Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials at ETH Zurich, where he held the chair from 1988.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies, was a German-born American architect and Bauhaus director known for steel-and-glass buildings like the Seagram Building and the Barcelona chair.
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, called the father of aerodynamics, who founded modern fluid mechanics with his 1904 boundary layer theory.