In the present work the analysis of gas lubricated multileafjournal bearing has been presented. The two dimensionalcompressible Reynolds equation was solved to establish thepressure field in the clearance space of the bearing. Elasticdeformation equation is coupled with the Reynolds equation toget the foil deflections and change in film thickness. The effectof bearing misalignment on foil bearing performancecharacteristics has been presented. The problem has beenformulated using incremental finite element method. The effectof bearing misalignment on static performance characteristicslike load carrying capacity, frictional torque, minimum filmthickness and on dynamic characteristics in terms of stiffnessand damping coefficients have been presented.
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