Differences Method Topology of Hydrodynamic Pressure Calculations from Reynolds Equation

The main topic of the presented paper concerns the method of determination and calculations of the general and particular numerical solutions of modified Reynolds equation in curvilinear orthogonal coordinates for curvilinear boundary conditions for hydrodynamic pressure distributions in bearing gap. A general solution matrix was derived and determined for various orthogonal coordinates of two cooperating bearing surfaces separated by the oil existing in slide journal bearings. From mathematical point presented method of solution of modified Reynolds equation leads this problem to resolving the partial recurrence non homogeneous, linear equation of second order with variable coefficients. As an example the numerical hydrodynamic pressure calculation for slide bearing two cylindrical surfaces limited bearing gap with various eccentricities was in this paper performed. In numerical calculations are applied the formulae and calculation algorithm derived in this paper. Moreover, presented numerical topology of calculations in this paper enables to find the optimum way of determination of pressure values for an applied difference method regarding to the stability of solutions, convergences of the obtained values with various orthogonal shapes of cooperating surfaces. An adaptation of the known numerical difference method to the various curvilinear orthogonal boundary conditions applied during the hydrodynamic pressure determination on the two various curvilinear cooperating surfaces, to be decisive after author knowledge about a new achievement consisted in presented paper.