Influence Research of Flow Capacity on Temperature Field of Hydrostatic Thrust Bearing

Abstract

Temperature field of sector cavity multi-pad hydrostatic thrust bearing is significantly affected by flow capacity, and different flow capacity can carry different shearing heat, so temperature field of oil film is obviously changed. For this problem, the lubrication theory and the Computational Fluid Dynamics have been used to simulate influence of flow capacity on temperature of sector cavity multi-pad hydrostatic thrust bearing, to gain relationship between inlet flow capacity and temperature of sector cavity multi-pad hydrostatic thrust bearing, achieve the optimal design of such products. Results are shown that along with the flow capacity increasing, the temperature of hydrostatic thrust bearing also becomes lower under constant rotational speed condition.