INVESTIGATION ON THE APPLICATION OF THE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD TO THE SPILL GROOVED THRUST BEARING

作     者：Zhu Qin Yi Xuemei (School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University) 

作者机构：上海大学 上海 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (中国机械工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2000年第13卷第2期

页      面：81-89页

核心收录：

学科分类：0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 080203[工学-机械设计及理论] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

基　　金：This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China 

主　　题：Pressure control equation Boundary element method Spiral grooved thrust bearing 

摘      要：An application of the boundary element method (BEM) is presented to calculate the behaviors of a spiral grooved thrust bearing (SGTB). The basic reason is that the SGTB has very complex boundary conditions that can hinder the effective or sufficient applications of the finite difference method (FDM) and the finite element method (FEM), despite some existing work based on the FDM and the FEM. In other to apply the BEM, the pressure control equation, i. e., Reynolds equation, is first transformed into Laplace s and Poisson s form of the equations. Discretization of the SGTB with a set of boundary elements is thus explained in detail, which also includes the handling of boundary conditions. The Archimedean SGTB is chosen as an example of the application Of BEM, and the relationship between the behaviors and structure parameters of the bearing are found and discussed through this calculation. The obtained results lay a solid foundation for a further work of the design of the SGTB.