Transient load has a huge impact on the life and stability of water-lubricated bearings. In this paper work, CFD software is used to analyse the dynamic characteristic of water lubricated bearings under different transient loads of 500N, 1000N, 2000N and 3000N. The water film pressure contour distribution at different transient time was given. The time-varying relationships between the different transient loads with bearing forces, the journal displacement, the maximum value of water film pressure as well as the minimum value of water film thickness are obtained. The results show that with the increase of transient load, the effective bearing area of dynamic water pressure film decreases, and the maximum pressure increases. The bearing forces, the journal displacement, the maximum value of water film pressure as well as the minimum value of water film thickness will increase fast.

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Transient startup operating parameter has a serious influence on the stability of water-lubricated bearings. In this study, CFD method was used to predict the rotordynamic coefficients of water lubricated bearings under transient loads. The stiffness and damping coefficients versus transient time for water-lubricated bearings are given. The stiffness and damping coefficients versus different transient loads for water-lubricated bearings are also given. The results show that the stiffness and damping coefficients will increase rapidly in a very short time. With the increase of impact time, both of them come to a steady value. With the increase of impact load, the direct stiffness and the direct damping coefficients of water lubricated bearing will increase. The value of cross-coupling stiffness and the cross-coupling damping coefficients will decrease.