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A Review of Grooved Dynamic Gas Bearings

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Eliott Philippe Guenat, Lili Gu

This paper offers an extensive review of publications dealing with the modeling, the design and the experimental investigation of grooved dynamic gas lubricated bearings. Recent years have witnessed a rise in small-scale and high-speed turbomachinery appli ...

2020

Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Andreas Möri, Haseeb Zia

Magmatic dikes are a naturally occurring type of fluid-driven fractures [1] propagating in the lithosphere driven by buoyancy (more precisely by the difference between the in-situ minimum horizontal stress gradient and the magma weight). Fully-coupled mode ...

2020

Advanced design methods and non-ideal gas lubrication applied to aerodynamic bearings

Eliott Philippe Guenat

Clean and energy-efficient turbomachinery are playing an increasingly important role in the decarbonization of heating systems, waste heat recovery and transportation, as the use of small-scale heat pumping and fuel cells spreads. Such machines typically e ...

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Scale limitations of gas bearing supported turbocompressors for vapor compression cycles

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

An analysis of single-stage centrifugal compressors supported on dynamic, gas lubricated bearings for driving vapor compression cycles suggests that the maximum feasible compressor power is limited, primarily by the bearing load capacity, in the range from ...

2020

Transition from a radial to a 3D buoyancy-driven hydraulic fracture

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Andreas Möri

Magmatic dikes are a naturally occurring type of fluid-driven fractures (Rivalta et al. 2015) propagating in the lithosphere due to buoyant forces emerging from the density difference between the host material and the injected fluid (more precisely the dif ...

2020

Pressure Profile Measurements within The Gas Film of Journal Foil Bearings Using An Instrumented Rotor with Telemetry

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Karim Magdi Zakaria Abdelrahman Shalash

Foil bearings are strong candidates to support oil-free turbomachinery. Although foil bearings are a widely used technology, models describing their behavior are not validated using the film pressure, which is the fundamental variable of any fluid film bea ...

2020

Adhesive wear of rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts

Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba

The tribological interaction between two rough surfaces comes down to the contact of microscale asperities, forming micro-contacts. Recent work demonstrated the existence of a critical asperity size d* governing a ductile-to-brittle transition for a given ...

2020

Parametric analysis of the elastohydrodynamic lubrication efficiency on induced seismicity

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Chiara Cornelio

During reservoir stimulations, the injection of fluids with variable viscosities can trigger seismicity. Several fault lubrication mechanisms have been invoked to explain the dynamic stress drop occurring during those seismic events. Here, we perform a par ...

2020

Instability of a thin viscous film flowing under an inclined substrate: the emergence and stability of rivulets

François Gallaire, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Gaëtan Pierre Clément Lerisson

We study the pattern formation of a thin film flowing under an inclined planar substrate. The phenomenon is studied in the context of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability using the lubrication equation. Inspired by experimental observations, we numerically stud ...

2020

Flexible support and enhanced groove geometries for gas lubricated bearings

Philipp Kaspar Bättig

Gas lubricated Herringbone-Grooved Journal Bearings (HGJB) are a promising solution to support high-speed rotors in oil-free turbo-machinery due to their compactness, relatively low losses, no need for lubrication and low wear. Gas lubricated bearings, how ...

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