Simulation Gear Lubrication

Figure 1: Animation gear lubrication

CAD model gear box created in NOGRID's COMPASS

Figure 2: CAD model created in NOGRID's COMPASS

Setup and initial conditions of gear lubrication case in NOGRID points CFD software

Figure 3: Setup the gear lubrication case in the GUI

Gear lubrication simulation results in NOGRID points' GUI

Figure 4: Initial state, color is smoothing length [m]

Figure 5: Animation of the rotating gears including the lubricant in full 3D

Simulation of gear lubrication with the meshless CFD software NOGRID points can help to understand the flow inside a gear box. A lubricant is used to reduce friction and for cooling. The effectiveness of cooling depends on the amount of lubricant and how well it is transported to the hot gears.

NOGRID unites abilities to handle such complex free surface flows and moving parts in the domain and allows the simulation of any conceivable gear geometry and operation modes such as

Computation is in full 3D solving complete Navier-Stokes-Equations
Injection to the gear box by one or more inlets
Moving and rotation of the gears
Computation of temperature transport in the (solid) gears and in the lubricant
Free definable material properties by equations or curves for the gears and for the lubricant
Any gear geometry with small gaps or cutouts

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Nogrid's strengths

Particular strengths of NOGRID's fluid flow CFD software are the rapid preprocessing (no fluid grid needs to be generated, only the boundary mesh, inner finite points are generated automatically depending on User setting initially and during computation), and the outstandingly short computation time even for complicated cavities.

As you can see in the image below, the boundary of the geometry still requires a mesh to allow the interior finite points to detect the boundary. The boundary must therefore be meshed and the finite points inside are automatically generated during the simulation controlled by User specifications.

Easy and fast modelling: Build geometry, mesh boundary, setup the case and start computation

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