Abstract: An aerostatic bearing has been designed for supporting a heavy payload. The bearing involves an axial gap on the stator top that provides an upward lift, a bottom gap for counterbalancing the tendency of large liftoff, and ...

Abstract: A simple perturbation flow model is formulated and validated by a rigorous computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study for designing a counterbalanced vertical-axis aerostatic thrust bearing. The flow model of the orifice at ...