Hydrodynamic journal bearings are essential components for industrial rotating
machineries. Continuously growing specific power allows more compact and efficient …

Hydropower is a clean and renewable energy, fundamental to the attainment of a
sustainable society. Despite its efficacy and success, there is a need to address the …

Tilting-pad journal bearings (TPJBs) are widely installed in rotating machines owing to their
high stability, but some drawbacks can be noted, such as higher cost with respect to …

Several rotating machines are nowadays equipped with both thrust and journal tilting-pad
bearings. The maximum temperature in the pads is critical for applications running at high …

The thrust bearing of vertical hydro-generator unit bears the weight and axial load of the
rotating part. During the operation, oil film friction will generate a lot of heat. A good cooling …

Tilting-pad journal bearings (TPJB) are widely installed in rotating machines owing to their
higher stability given by negligible values of the cross-terms of dynamic coefficients if …

Hydrodynamic journal bearings are essential power transmission elements which are
carrying increasingly high loads because of the growing volume specific power in numerous …