Unsteady flow and dynamic behavior of ultra-short lomakin gas bearings

Proceedings of STLE/ASME International Joint Tribology Conference, IJTC 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Teo, C J ^a   Spakovszky, Z S ^a   Jacobson, S A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; JOURNAL BEARINGS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ROTATION; UNSTEADY FLOW;

BEARING FORCES; BEARING GAPS; GAS BEARINGS; WHIRL INSTABILITY;

HYDROSTATIC BEARINGS;

EID: 33751283868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ijtc2006-12174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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