Aerostatic bearing — grouped inherent orifices
Design pressure ratio and load capacity for an aerostatic thrust bearing fed through grouped inherent orifices.
Load capacity, F150.8 N
Pressure ratio, pᵣ/pₛ0.68
One of the scarce-core gas-bearing calculators. This one carries no login lock and is general in its geometry.
Method & references
- Aerostatic thrust bearing with grouped inherent (compensated) orifice restrictors.
- Load from the design pressure ratio and the bearing area.
The computation is a literal port of the original client-side JavaScript from /calculators/c12_4c.htm. Results are verified equal to the original by an automated golden-master test. No formula has been re-derived or “improved”.