An experimental study on externally pressurized supersonic gas thrust bearings.

A study on the characteristics of externally pressurized air bearings

In this study the direct numerical method is applied to solve the perturbed Reynolds" equation. To solve it the perturbed dimensionless mass f low rate is used as the boundary condition under the inherently compensated restrictor. The dynamic characteristics of a rotor supported in the externally pressurized air bearings, such as stiffness and damping coefficients, are analyzed, and as a result...

High Speed Rotors on Gas Bearings: Design and Experimental Characterization

Thrust Vectoring Control of Supersonic Flow Through an Orifice Injector

Traditional mechanical control systems in thrust vectoring are efficient in rocket thrust guidance but their costs and their weights are excessive. The fluidic injection in the nozzle divergent constitutes an alternative procedure to achieve the goal. In this paper, we present a 3D analytical model for fluidic injection in a supersonic nozzle integrating an orifice. The fluidic vectoring uses a...

Shape optimization of pressurized air bearings

Use of externally pressurized air bearings allows for the design of mechanical systems requiring extreme precision in positioning. One application is the fine control for the positioning of mirrors in large-scale optical telescopes. Other examples come from applications in robotics and computer hard-drive manufacturing. Pressurized bearings maintain a finite separation between mechanical compon...

Differential Quadrature Method for the Analysis of Hydrodynamic Thrust Bearings

This paper presents the application of the method of generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) for the analysis of hydrodynamic thrust bearings. GDQ is a simple, efficient, high-order numerical technique and it uses the information on all grid points to approach the derivatives of the unknown function. The effectiveness of the solution technique is verified by comparing the GDQ computed results...