Oil lubricated floating ring bearings (FRBs) are popular among the passenger vehicle turbochargers. Air entrainment occurs in the inner film of the FRB under low oil-supplied pressure. Air entrainment has great impact on the bearing performance. Experiments reported that FRB with a circumferential groove on the ring shows lower ring-to-shaft speed and improved stabilizing capacity at high shaft speed. This study aims to construct the numerical simulation method to predict the multiphase flow in the grooved ring (GR) FRB. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method is adopted to obtain the bearing performance considering air entrainment. CFD calculation can obtain detailed air entrainment results that experiment cannot provide. Calculation results are compared with the experimental results to validate the proposed CFD method. Analysis shows the great influence of grooved ring on the air entrainment. Air entrainment contributes to the decrease of the ring-to-shaft speed ratio in the GR FRB. The proposed CFD calculation considering air entrainment can give good prediction of the ring rotation speed under different shaft speed. Besides, detailed analysis of the effective viscosity indicates that outer film is mainly affected by thermal effect. Inner film is affected by both thermal effect and air entrainment effect, where latter is more predominant.
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ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition
June 11–15, 2018
Oslo, Norway
Conference Sponsors:
- International Gas Turbine Institute
ISBN:
978-0-7918-5114-2
PROCEEDINGS PAPER
Investigation of Air-Oil Distribution of Low Oil-Supplied Pressure Grooved Ring Floating Ring Bearing
Wang Yan
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Li Yuhong
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Paper No:
GT2018-75887, V07BT34A026; 10 pages
Published Online:
August 30, 2018
Citation
Yan, W, & Yuhong, L. "Investigation of Air-Oil Distribution of Low Oil-Supplied Pressure Grooved Ring Floating Ring Bearing." Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 7B: Structures and Dynamics. Oslo, Norway. June 11–15, 2018. V07BT34A026. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2018-75887
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