Abstract: A new thermohydrodynamic analysis model for bump air foil bearings with a detailed thermal model of bump foil structures and rotor is presented. In the developed model, temperatures of lubricating ...

Abstract: Air foil bearings (AFBs) have been explored for various micro- to midsized turbomachinery for decades, and many successful applications of the AFBs to small turbomachinery were also reported. ...

Abstract: Air foil bearings (AFBs) have been recognized as the most promising for oil-free turbomachinery. However, the applications of AFBs to the relatively large turbomachinery have many technical ...

Abstract: Oil-free turbomachinery have emerged as one of the core technologies for the future green power generation systems as stand-alone systems or hybridized with high temperature fuel cells or solar ...