CFD-BASED RESEARCH ON THE LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY OF ASYMMETRIC TEXTURE WITH DIFFERENT REYNOLDS NUMBER

A two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to study the load-bearing capacity of asymmetric texture under the state of fluid lubrication. The effects of asymmetric parameter H and the Reynolds number Re on hydrodynamic load-bearing capacity of the oil film were discussed. It was found that a decrease in asymmetric parameter H may significantly improve the load-bearing capacity, but an increase in Reynolds number Re may reduce this effect. For example, with a Re at 20, the load-bearing capacity increases by 73.44% with the H varying from 4 to 0.2. However, with a Re at 160, it has only an increase of 4.68% at the same conditions. In addition, the numerical results also showed that the load-bearing capacity will increase with the increase of Re in certain texture.