Simulation and experiment of starting transient flow field of the hydrostatic bearing based on dynamic mesh method

A new method is developed to assess and analyze the dynamic performance of hydrostatic bear-ing oil film by using an amulets-layer dynamic mesh technique.It is implemented using C Language to compile the UDF program of a single oil film of the hydrostatic bearing.The effects of key lubrica-tion parameters of the hydrostatic bearing are evaluated and analyzed under various working condi-tions, i.e.under no-load, a load of 40t, a full load of 160t, and the rotation speed of 1r/min, 2r/min, 4r/min, 8r/min, 16r/min, 32r/min.The transient data of oil film bearing capacity under different load and rotation speed are acquired for a total of 18 working conditions during the oil film thickness changing.It allows the effective prediction of dynamic performance of large size hydrostatic bearing.Experiments on hydrostatic bearing oil film have been performed and the results were used to define the boundary conditions for the numerical simulations and validate the developed numerical model.The results showed that the oil film thickness became thinner with the increase of the operat-ing time of the hydrostatic bearing, both the oil film rigidity and the oil cavity pressure increased sig-nificantly, and the increase of the bearing capacity was inversely proportional to the cube of the change of the film thickness.Meanwhile, the effect of the load condition on carrying capacity of large size static bearing was more important than the speed condition.The error between the simula-tion value and the experimental value was 4 .25%.