Oil churning power losses of a gear pair: Experiments and model validation

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Seetharaman, S ^a   Kahraman, A ^a   Moorhead, M D ^a   Petry Johnson, T T ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gears; Oil churning; Oil pocketing; Spin power losses

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FACE-WIDTH; GEAR DESIGN; MEASURED PARAMETERS; MODEL FORMULATION; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL VALIDATION; OIL CHURNING; OIL LEVELS; OIL TEMPERATURE; OPERATING SPEED; PHYSICS-BASED; POWER-LOSSES; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

EXPERIMENTS; SPUR GEARS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955100387     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3085942     Document Type: Article

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