Rotor Bearing System Simulator

Author
COMSOL

Report date
Apr 1, 2020 8:34:58 AM

SUMMARY
This application simulates a rotor bearing system with mountings at different locations of the rotor. The
parametric eigenfrequency analysis of this system can be performed to determine the eigenfrequencies at
different angular speeds.

Applications finds its usage in determining the critical speeds of the rotating systems and helps in
improving the design such that these critical speeds are away from the operating speed of the system.

As a result of the analysis, whirl modes, Campbell plot and critical speeds can be obtained.

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 Contents
1. Software Information..........................................................................................................................
2. Rotor Geometry...................................................................................................................................
3. Rotor Properties..................................................................................................................................
4. Bearing Properties...............................................................................................................................
5. Disk Properties.....................................................................................................................................
6. Results...................................................................................................................................................

1 Software Information
Author COMSOL
Date Oct 22, 2019 4:29:26 AM

GLOBAL SETTINGS
Name Rotor bearing system simulator.mph
C:\Program
Path Files\COMSOL\COMSOL55\Multiphysics\applications\Rotordynamics_Module\Applic
ations\rotor_bearing_system_simulator.mph
Version COMSOL Multiphysics 5.5 (Build: 359)
Unit system SI

USED PRODUCTS
COMSOL Multiphysics
Rotordynamics Module
Structural Mechanics
Module

COMPUTATION INFORMATION
Computation
2 min 43 s
time
CPU AMD64 Family 21 Model 48 Stepping 1, 2 cores
Operating
Windows 7
system

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2 Rotor Geometry

Geometry 2

3 Rotor Properties

3.1 GEOMETRY

PARAMETERS 1
Expressio
Name Value Description
n
L 0.7[m] 0.7 m Length of the rotor
dout 0.05[m] 0.05 m Outer diameter of the rotor
din 0[m] 0 m Inner diameter of the rotor

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3.2 MATERIAL

LINK SETTINGS
Material Structural steel (mat1)

PARAMETERS 1
Name Expression Value Description
E0 200e9[Pa] 2E11 Pa Young's modulus
nu0 0.3[1] 0.3 Poisson's ratio
7850[kg/m^
rho0 7850 kg/m³ Density of the rotor
3]

4 Bearing Properties

BEARINGS
kyy kzz kyz kzy cyy czz cyz czy
x (m)
(N/m) (N/m) (N/m) (N/m) (N*s/m) (N*s/m) (N*s/m) (N*s/m)
1e6[N/m 1e6[N/m
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
] ]
1e6[N/m 1e6[N/m
0.7[m] 0 0 0 0 0 0
] ]

5 Disk Properties

DISKS
rho Ip Id
x (m) d (m) h (m) m (kg)
(kg/m^3) (kg*m^2) (kg*m^2)
0.35 0.3 0.05 7850 26.974 0.312 0.162

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6 Results

6.1 PLOT GROUPS

Whirl: Displacement field

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Campbell plot

CRITICAL SPEEDS
Index Critical speed (rad/s)
1 210.97
2 210.976
3 495.373
4 907.53
5 2127.944
6 2157.245