Study on water lubricated bearings of high speed pump based on numerical simulation

A method is presented for calculating and analyzing the performance of water lubricated bearing of high speed pump under different structure. In present work, six kinds of bearings in different radial clearance(C), which are 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, 0.08, 0.10and0.12 respectively, under the same minimum water film thickness, have been designed. The models are built by CREO and numerical simulated by ansys. The main content of the present work is to analyze the relationship between the pressure and the load carrying capacity with different radial clearance(C) by ansys workbench based on Fluid-Solid coupling through ansys workbench. The stress deformations of bearings are also acquired through thermal-structure coupling. From the comparing result among the numerical analysis under the six different model of water lubricated bearing, the relationship between radial clearance(C) and load carrying capacity, as well as the deformation of bearing under different radial clearance(C), are obtained. Further, results indicates that, a proper selection of radial clearance(C) is essential to enhance the bearing performance.