...Nenzi Wang; Shih-Hung Chang; Hua-Chih Huang This study presents an efficacy comparison of iterative solution methods for solving the compressible-fluid Reynolds equation in modeling air- or gas-lubricated bearings. A direct fixed-point iterative (DFI) method and Newton’s method are employed...

.... A quasi-Newton method is used to find the minimum, and fast Fourier transform is applied to enhance the computation efficiency. In-depth analyses of the effects of friction force, layers properties, and layers thickness to contact statistics and stresses are performed. The optimum layer parameters which...

.... They are obtained by applying Newton’s method to solve the system of governing differential equations ( 5 6 7 8 9 ). The method is capable of solving the inclusive system of two coupled, nonlinear, ordinary differential equations with four coupled first-order differential boundary equations. 1...

... April 2003 19 04 2004 cavitation tribology Newton method machine bearings hydrodynamics algorithm theory This paper is concerned with the computation of the pressure distribution in hydrodynamic bearings, using a direct application of Newton’s method. In such problems...