Surface Roughness Influence on the Dynamic Performance of Rayleigh Step Bearing Lubricated with Couplestress Fluid

In the present paper, we have analyzed the surface roughness influence on the dynamic performance of Rayleigh step bearing by taking the squeezing action. The non-Newtonian lubricant in the film region considered is a couplestress fluid. A stochastic random variable with a non-zero mean, variance an...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Section A, physical sciences India, Section A, physical sciences, 2024-04, Vol.94 (2), p.235-247
Main Authors: Naduvinamani, N. B., Angadi, Ashwini
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied and Technical Physics
Atomic
Bearing strength
Damping capacity
Dynamic characteristics
Equilibrium flow
Flow velocity
Load carrying capacity
Molecular
Optical and Plasma Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Physics
Random variables
Scientific Research Paper
Surface roughness
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Summary:In the present paper, we have analyzed the surface roughness influence on the dynamic performance of Rayleigh step bearing by taking the squeezing action. The non-Newtonian lubricant in the film region considered is a couplestress fluid. A stochastic random variable with a non-zero mean, variance and skewness characterizes the roughness. The improved averaged Reynolds type equation is obtained using constitutive Stoke’s equations for couple stress fluid and stochastic surface roughness theory. For volume flow rate, steady-state characteristics and dynamic characteristics are derived in closed-form expression and are solved numerically by Simpson rule using Mathematica software. The non-Newtonian couplestress fluid enhances (diminishes) the steady load carrying capacity, the dynamic stiffness, and the dynamic damping coefficients, also a decrease (increase) in the volume flow rate is required for negatively (positively) skewed surface roughness in accordance with the Newtonian case. The relative percentage increase in bearing characteristics is studied. The results are considered with that of the smooth case.
ISSN:0369-8203
2250-1762
DOI:10.1007/s40010-023-00869-1