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An alternating direction (ADI) method for a self-acting rectangular gas bearing

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The stationary Reynolds equation is solved over a rectangular region. The problem is linearized by Picard linearization. The ADI method is used to solve the resulting set of linear equations. A set of parameters is introduced to speed up convergence as well for the Picard linearization as for the ADI method. A comparison is made with Booy-Coleman's method. Results are given for bearing numbers 10 to 1000.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands

    R. W. De Vries

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The author is indebted to Prof. P. J. Zandbergen, Mr. van Beckum and Mr. van Eck of this institute.

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De Vries, R.W. An alternating direction (ADI) method for a self-acting rectangular gas bearing. J Eng Math 9, 71–79 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01535499

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