Viscosity is not affected much by pressure except close to rarefaction. (This is why you are not finding any handy tables of viscosity versus pressure as you do for temperature.) To see the effect of pressure on viscosity for the cases of slide and squeezed film damping, look at the papers of Timo Veijola, who has done a great deal of very useful work in this area. The "effective" viscosity, for which expressions are provided in these papers, is notional, not precisely a fluid property. It is a characterization of fluid effects that can be lumped as viscosity for these particular flows. You cannot take these expressions and use them in other contexts. -- F. T. Korsmeyer, Ph.D. Principal Engineer & Manager, Field Solver Development Coventor, Inc.