https://www.elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?i Materials physics and mechanics Механика и физика материалов 1605-8119 12 10.18720/MPM.3412017_12 Variational problem for hydrogenerator thrust bearing Variational problem for hydrogenerator thrust bearing Antonova Borovkov A.I. Boldyrev Voynov Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University 31 12 2017 34 1 97 102

Reversible and irreversible heavy loaded thrust bearings of a hydrogenerator are investigated. The problem of oil wedge microgeometry profiling for load capacity optimization is considered. The analysis is based on optimization methods using variational calculus. The results of oil wedge microgeometry optimization for reversible and irreversible thrust bearings are presented.

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