Study about the influence of cavitation on the dynamic characteristics for the sliding bearing

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Sliding bearings are employed to support the rotor system and limit the vibration amplitude. In high speed rotor system, cavitation often occurs in the oil film and affects the dynamic characteristics of the sliding bearing greatly. In this paper, numerical method is adopted to simulate the cavitation in the oil film with homogeneous two-phase mixture flow using Singhal-et-al cavitation model in the commercial code FLUENT-solver. Cases without cavitation model were also calculated at the same time. Many computations with different frequency ratios were conducted. Then the rotor dynamic characteristics of the sliding bearing were retrieved. The results show that the cavitation has great influences on the pressure distribution in the oil film. As the rotational speed or whirling speed of the journal increases, the cavitation will become prominent. The dynamic coefficients of the bearing such as stiffness and damping with cavitation model considered are quite different from that without cavitation. So it is worth to pay attention to and do further study about the cavitation in the sliding bearing in the high speed rotor system.

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Zhai, L. M., Luo, Y. Y., & Wang, Z. W. (2015). Study about the influence of cavitation on the dynamic characteristics for the sliding bearing. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 72). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/72/4/042046

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