Research Article

Influence of Micropolar Lubrication on the Performance of 4-Pocket Capillary Compensated Conical Hybrid Journal Bearing

Table 1

Geometric and operating parameters for conical journal bearing system [2, 14, 23, 24, 29].

Bearing aspect ratio ( )1.0
Number of pockets4
Restrictor design ( ) parameter0.50
Type of compensating elementCapillary
Nondimensional external radial load ( )0.1–0.9
Semicone angle ( ) , , and
Total pocket area to total bearing area ( )0.333
Inter recess angle ( )
Speed parameter ( )1.0
Land width ratio ( )0.25
Characteristic length ( )5, 10, 20, 30
Coupling number parameter ( )0.4, 0.5