...Gudeta Berhanu Benti; David Rondon; Rolf Gustavsson; Jan-Olov Aidanpää In this paper, the dynamics of tilting pad journal bearings (TPJB) with four and eight pads are studied and compared experimentally and numerically. The experiments are performed on a rigid vertical rotor supported by two...

... of a vertical rotor. The bearing properties were modeled as a function of eccentricity and position in the stationary coordinate system by Navier–Stokes equations whose results are taken from commercial software. The simulated unbalanced response is compared to experimental results; the changing position...