This paper deals with the influence of misalignment on the static performance of bearings having three axial grooves that are equi-spaced in the circumferential direction. The lubricant (water) is supplied from one end of the bearing that flows both in axial and circumferential direction and exits from its other end. Effects of misalignment in both vertical and horizontal plane are numerically computed for groove angles 36 and 18 using the modified Reynolds equation and finite difference method. The influence of misalignment on the steady state characteristics such as load capacity, friction coefficient, and side leakage is analyzed for both the groove angles with different eccentricity ratios. The load capacity and the side leakage flow, which is slightly more for bearing with groove angle 18 when compared with 36 groove angle, increases with the degree of misalignment (DM). The friction coefficient is less for bearing with groove angle 18 , when compared with bearing with 36 groove angle. The friction coefficient decreases with increase in DM for vertical misalignment for both the bearings.

The static characteristics of misaligned three-axial water-lubricated journal bearing in the turbulent regime are analyzed for groove angles 36° and 18°. Ng and Pan’s turbulence model is applied to study the turbulence effects in the journal bearing. The static parameters such as load-carrying capacity, friction coefficient, and side leakage are found for different degree of misalignment (DM). The change in flow regime of the lubricant from laminar to turbulent and the increase in misalignment, improved the load capacity of the bearing. For lightly loaded bearings, the friction coefficient of the bearing increased with the increase in Reynolds number.

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