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In the grinding process, grinding fluid is delivered for the purposes of chip flushing, cooling, lubrication, and chemical protection of the work surface. Due to the high-speed rotation of the grinding wheel, a boundary layer of air forms around the grinding wheel and moves most of the grinding fluid away from the grinding zone. Hence, the conventional method of delivering coolant fluid that floods delivery with high fluid pressure and nozzle fluid rare supply coolant fluid to achieve high performance grinding. The flood grinding typically delivering large volumes of grinding fluid is ineffective, especially under high speed grinding conditions. In the paper, a theoretical model is presented for flow of grinding fluid through the grinding zone in high speed precision grinding. The model shows that the flow rate through the grinding zone between the wheel and the work piece surface not only depends on wheel porosity and wheel speed, but also depends on nozzle volumetric flow rate and fluid jet velocity. Furthermore, the model is tested by a surface grinding machine in order to correlate between experiment and theory. Consequently, the useful flow-rate model is found to give a good agreement with the experimental results and the model can well forecast the useful flow-rate in high-speed precision grinding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]