Thermal features of compliant foil bearings-theory and experiments

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 566-571

  Salehi, Mohsen ^a   Swanson, Erik ^a   Heshmat, Hooshang ^a  

^a MOHAWK INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR LUBRICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COOLING; HEAT CONDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS;

COUTTE APPROXIMATION;

FOIL BEARINGS;

COUETTE FLOW; EQUATION; FOIL BEARING; LIQUID LUBRICANT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0035391182     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1308038     Document Type: Article

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