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Effects of electric field on hydrodynamic characteristics of finite-length ER journal bearings

Jie Peng, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2006 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 6, pp 533-540
TLDR
In this paper, a numerical analysis is performed on the hydrodynamic characteristics of electrorheological (ER) fluid flows in journal bearings based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques.
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This article is published in Tribology International.The article was published on 2006-06-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bearing (mechanical) & Bingham plastic.

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Lubrication under charged conditions

TL;DR: A review of important research progresses on charged lubrication in recent years is presented in this article, where two relevant applications, i.e., charged bearings and electric contact lubrication systems, are introduced.
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Experimental study and CFD simulation of rotational eccentric cylinder in a magnetorheological fluid

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of magnetic field and weight percentage of particles on the viscosity of a magnetorheological fluid have been measured using a rotational viscometer.
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Analysis of textured multi-lobe non-recessed hybrid journal bearings with various restrictors

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study concerning the combined influence of ER fluid lubrication and surface texturing on the performance of two-lobe/circular non-recessed hybrid journal bearings compensated with various types of flow control devices is presented.
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Textured conical hybrid journal bearing with ER lubricant behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of micro-texture with different shapes used on the bearing surface is studied and a parametric study is carried out to optimize the dimple attributes on the basis of radial load.
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A comparative performance assessment of a hydrodynamic journal bearing lubricated with oil and magnetorheological fluid

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a journal bearing with magnetorheological fluid activated by a local constant magnetic field to vary both the local flow resistance and pressure were investigated. But the results were not compared with the same geometrical bearing lubricated with oil.
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A calculation procedure for heat, mass and momentum transfer in three-dimensional parabolic flows

TL;DR: In this article, a general, numerical, marching procedure is presented for the calculation of the transport processes in three-dimensional flows characterised by the presence of one coordinate in which physical influences are exerted in only one direction.
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Flows of Materials with Yield

TL;DR: In this article, a modified constitutive relation that applies everywhere in the flow field, in both yielded and practically unyielded regions, is proposed to analyze two-dimensional flows of Bingham fluids.
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The giant electrorheological effect in suspensions of nanoparticles.

TL;DR: This work fabricated electrorheological suspensions of coated nanoparticles that show electrically controllable liquid–solid transitions that can reach a yield strength of 130 kPa, breaking the theoretical upper bound on conventional ER static yield stress.
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On the effects of a piezoviscous lubricant on the dynamics of a journal bearing

TL;DR: In this paper, a moving spectral element method is used to investigate the effects of non-Newtonian lubricants on the dynamics of a journal bearing and it is demonstrated that piezoviscous lubricants can stabilize the journal even without the incorporation of a cavitation model.
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Controllable high speed journal bearings, lubricated with electro-rheological fluids. An analytical and experimental approach

TL;DR: In this paper, a high speed journal bearing with a small radial clearance is presented, and the alternation of the attitude locus (eccentricity and attitude angle) and the stiffness coefficients in a loaded journal bearing lubricated with ER fluid is investigated and presented.
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The results have shown that the influences of ER effects, caused by the applied electric field, on the journal bearing characteristics are significant and not negligible.