Evolutionary optimization of micro-thrust bearings with periodic partial trapezoidal surface texturing

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Papadopoulos, Christos I ^a   Nikolakopoulos, Pantelis G ^b   Kaiktsis, Lambros ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

micro bearings; Navier Stokes equations; optimization; trapezoidal texturing

Indexed keywords

BEARING PERFORMANCE; CFD CODES; CONVERGENCE RATIO; DESIGN VARIABLES; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; ISOTHERMAL FLOWS; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITIES; LOCAL SEARCH METHOD; MICRO-BEARINGS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION STUDIES; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SURFACE-TEXTURING; TRAPEZOIDAL TEXTURING;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LOAD LIMITS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STATORS; VISCOUS FLOW; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

THRUST BEARINGS;

EID: 78649995410     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001990     Document Type: Article

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