A transient analysis of the textured journal bearing considering micro and macro cavitation during an engine cycle

Abstract

This paper presents a transient analysis of the textured journal bearing system. A mass-conserving model is developed to consider the combined effects of the inter-asperity cavitation and the macroscopic cavitation between two rough textured surfaces. In this model, the inter-asperity cavitation induced by the roughness is considered by the statistical approach (the classic flow factor methodology), while the deterministic approach is used to deal with the macroscopic cavitation induced by textures and macroscopic geometry. Moreover, the system of discretized equations for this model is unconstrained by reformulating the cavitation conditions, which is in favor of improving the computational efficiency. Furthermore, based on the fully dynamic analysis, the present study examines the effect of different textures (dimple and groove) under the engine operating conditions. It is found that the position of journal center is changed according to the engine speed and then influences the potential reduction effects produced by texturing.

Keywords

Roughness effects cavitation surface texturing mass-conserving algorithm

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