Dynamic behavior of a fluid plain journal bearing with incompressible fluid considering nonlinear fluid forces

摘要

Recently, in many areas such as computers and information equipments etc., the fluid journal bearings are required to rotate at higher speed. To satisfy this requirement, the strictly stability analysis of the journal is indispensable. In this paper, we investigate the stability analysis of the dynamic behavior of the fluid plain journal bearing with incompressible fluid considering the nonlinear terms of fluid forces. The stability analysis is examined by the numerical simulations on each model of rigid rotor and flexible rotor. The stable regions are compared by nonlinear analysis with the regions by classical linear analysis. Performing nonlinear simulation analysis, it becomes clear that there is rather a stable region in which the amplitude does not increase abruptly, and this phenomenon can not only be pointed out, but also is judged to be unstable by linear stable analysis. Finally, the experiment using actual bearings is performed and compared with the numerical results.