Airfoil bearings offer many advantages over oil-lubricated bearings, but they have reliability issues during start∕stops (wear) and limited heat dissipation capability. To address these issues, a hybrid airfoil bearing (HAFB) combining hydrodynamic airfoil bearing with hydrostatic lift was introduced previously by one of the authors of this paper. Their studies show that HAFB has superior performance compared to its hydrodynamic counterpart in load capacity and cooling performance. In this article, the bearing stiffness and damping coefficients of HAFB are calculated using a linear perturbation method developed for HAFB. Simulations showed that feed parameter and supply pressure affect the dynamic characteristics of HAFB. With an increase in either the supply pressure or the feed parameter, the rotor centers itself and hence one sees a decrease in direct stiffness. Simulations showed that the cross-coupled stiffness could be reduced by increasing either the supply pressure or the feed parameter. Direct damping showed increasing trend with the supply pressure and the feed parameter. Frequency-domain analysis of the bearing coefficients was also performed. The direct damping showed marginal changes with supply pressure but showed rapid increase with increasing excitation frequencies. The damping converged to null values for all the pressures for supersynchronous excitations. The loss in damping with high stiffness values for high frequency excitation is a typical hardening effect of gas bearings. In almost all the cases, there are rapid decreases in cross-coupled stiffness and damping and the values show converging trends in supersynchronous regime.
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November 2008
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Parametric Studies on Dynamic Performance of Hybrid Airfoil Bearing
Manish Kumar,
Manish Kumar
Mechanical Engineering,
Texas A&M University
, College Station, TX 77843
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Daejong Kim
Daejong Kim
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Manish Kumar
Mechanical Engineering,
Texas A&M University
, College Station, TX 77843
Daejong Kim
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Nov 2008, 130(6): 062501 (8 pages)
Published Online: August 21, 2008
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Received:
November 25, 2007
Revised:
March 8, 2008
Published:
August 21, 2008
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Kumar, M., and Kim, D. (August 21, 2008). "Parametric Studies on Dynamic Performance of Hybrid Airfoil Bearing." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. November 2008; 130(6): 062501. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2940354
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