INERTIA EFFECTS IN THE TURBULENT SHEAR FLOW OF THE LUBRICANT FILM.

This study presents the inertia effects on the turbulent lubricant film of the thrust bearings. The steam lines for the sector bearing of constant film thickness are observed. The influence of centrifugal acceleration on the lubricant flow is found to be considerable, but in the turbulent regime, the radial deviation of the stream lines is smaller than in the laminar regime. The velocity distributions of a three-dimensional turbulent shear flow are analyzed. The calculated results of the pseudo-stream lines agree well with the experimental data.