A Numerical Approach to the Stability of Rotor-Bearing Systems

The stability characteristics of a rotor-bearing system which indicate the threshold of instability are generally obtained by applying the Routh-Hurwitz criterion to the characteristic polynomial. Usually the characteristic polynomial is obtained analytically from the characteristic determinant. In the case of the generalized eigenvalue problems, this is practically impossible. To study the stability characteristics of a floating bush bearing, the characteristic polynomial is constructed from the generalized eigenvalue problem using a recently developed numerical technique. Results obtained through this computer package are compared with those already available in the literature.