...Jisu Park; Kyuho Sim This study presents a new concept of controllable gas foil bearings (C-GFBs) with piezoelectric actuators. The C-GFB consists of a laminated top foil, bump foil, and piezo stacks and can simply change the bearing shape or film thickness locally and globally by varying...

... on gas foil bearings (GFBs) via on-road tests of a 2-liter class diesel vehicle. The oil-free TC is constructed using a hollow rotor with a radial turbine at one end and a compressor impeller at the other end, a center housing with journal and thrust GFBs, and turbine and compressor casings. The oil-free...

... to thermal growth of the bearing components was found to significantly affect the bearing load and to be a likely cause of the obvious drop in load capacity with a rise in ambient temperature. gas foil bearing thermohydrodynamics sparse mesh model thermal growth Oil-free technology supported...

...Tae Ho Kim; Luis San Andrés Comprehensive modeling of gas foil bearings (GFBs) anchored to reliable test data will enable the widespread usage of these bearings into novel high speed turbomachinery applications. GFBs often need a forced cooling gas flow, axially fed through one end of the bearing...

...Tae Ho Kim; Luis San Andrés Widespread usage of gas foil bearings (FBs) into microturbomachinery to midsize gas turbine engines requires accurate performance predictions anchored to reliable test data. This paper presents a simple yet accurate model predicting the static and dynamic force...