Investigation of passive bearing for biomedical applications

• Main Author: Ho, Ivan Jun Hui
• Other Authors: Chan Weng Kong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Fluid mechanics; DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/64033
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The area of interest is to maintain an axial clearance gap of 0.2mm between the centrifugal rotating impeller and stationary housing so minimum power is required to drive the impeller and hydrodynamic lift, hence it was proposed to use a Generalized Reduced Gradient (GRG) algorithm to optimize the p...