Abstract: The foil bearing is an enabling technology for turbomachinery systems, which has the potential to enable cost efficient supercritical CO2 cycles. The direct use of the cycle's working fluid within the bearings results in ...

Abstract: In this paper, a quasi-three-dimensional fluid–structure model using computational fluid dynamics for the fluid phase is presented to study the elastohydrodynamic performance of foil thrust bearings for supercritical CO2 ...

Abstract: Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) cycles are considered as a promising technology for next generation concentrated solar thermal, waste heat recovery, and nuclear applications. Particularly at small scale, where radial inflow ...