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Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs International Compressor Engineering Conference School of Mechanical Engineering 1998 A Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Lubricated Thrust Bearing Contact Model G. Xu Tecumseh Products Company F. Sadeghi Purdue University Follow this and additional works at: /icec Xu, G. and Sadeghi, F., A Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Lubricated Thrust Bearing Contact Model (1998). International Compressor Engineering Conference. Paper 1226. /icec/1226 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact epubs@ for additional information. Complete proceedings may be acquired in print and on CD-ROM directly from the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at / Herrick/Events/orderlit.html A Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Lubricated Thrust Bearing Contact Model Gang Xu, Research Engineer, Research laboratory Tecumseh Products Company, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Farshid Sadeghi, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, lN 47907 ABSTRACT A fully-coupled thermoelastic model for a fixed pad thrust bearing has been developed. Pressure, film thickness and three-dimensional temperature profiles were obtained by simultaneously solving the Reynolds, film thickness, energy and force balance equations using a combined finite difference and finite element method. The elastic deformation due to the pressure and the thermal distortion due to the temperature rise were obtained using finite element method. The results indicate that the thermal effects generally reduce the minimum film thickness and that the temperature rise in the lubricant can be significantly higher than the ambient. Furthermore, the thermal distortion due to the temperature rise has sig