Computational fluid dynamics applied to lubricated mechanical components: Review of the approaches to simulate gears, bearings, and pumps

L Maccioni, F Concli - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The lubrication of the mechanical components reduces friction, and increases the efficiency
and the reliability. However, the interaction of moving components with the lubricant leads to …

Oil distribution and churning losses of gearboxes: Experimental and numerical analysis

MN Mastrone, EA Hartono, V Chernoray, F Concli - Tribology International, 2020 - Elsevier
Currently, energy efficiency represents one of the main requisites in mechanical design.
Gearboxes play an important role in several industrial applications and, even if they are …

A combined experimental and computational study of lubrication mechanism of high precision reducer adopting a worm gear drive with complicated space surface …

X Deng, S Wang, Y Hammi, L Qian, Y Liu - Tribology International, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of friction and lubrication between meshing gear teeth with complicated
tooth surfaces has been a difficult problem in analysis of meshing contact of gear real tooth …

Churning power losses of a gearbox with spiral bevel geared transmission

X Hu, Y Jiang, C Luo, L Feng, Y Dai - Tribology International, 2019 - Elsevier
To predict the churning power losses in a gearbox with spiral bevel geared transmission,
based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method, a numerical simulation model …

Injection lubrication for high-speed helical gears using the overset mesh method and experimental verification

C Zhou, X Jiang, J Su, Y Liu, S Hou - Tribology International, 2022 - Elsevier
Aiming at the limitation of the dynamic mesh method in solving the flow field of rotating
machinery, an injection lubrication model of high-speed helical gear is proposed using the …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an analytical model to predict the churning power losses of an orthogonal face gear

X Zhu, Y Dai - Engineering Science and Technology, an International …, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the basic energy dissipations for one orthogonal face gear running partially
submerged in an oil bath, there is no open literature concerned on the churning power …

Innovative meshing strategies for bearing lubrication simulations

F Concli, CT Schaefer, C Bohnert - Lubricants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Efficiency improvement is the new challenge in all fields of design. In this scenario the
reduction of power losses is becoming more and more a main concern also in the design of …

Numerical and experimental investigation of splashing oil flow in a hypoid gearbox

Q Peng, L Gui, Z Fan - Engineering Applications of Computational …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The oil distribution and churning loss are the main concerns in the design of a lubrication
system for a gear transmission. This article describes a numerical method of simulating the …

Lubrication mechanism in gearbox of high-speed railway trains

X Deng, S Wang, S Wang, J Wang, Y Liu… - Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In this study, the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method is employed for numerical
simulation of flow field in gearbox of high-speed railway trains so as to understand the …

Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) for gears: Contact and bending fatigue behavior

F Concli - Procedia Structural Integrity, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) represents an alternative solution for the
manufacturing of the housing of small planetary gearboxes, with the gear teeth obtained …