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Computational Modelling of Thermo-Elastohydrodynamic Lubricated Contacts
The Flemish manufacturing industry requires a better insight into the lubrication of critical drivetrain components under diverse operating conditions from the perspective of energy efficiency, damage and wear as well as structural transmission of vibrations and noise generation.
CONTACTLUB focusses on the development of reliable, accurate and well-validated multi-scale computational models to simulate the transient response of Thermo-Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubricated (TEHL) contacts in gears and bearings under variable operating conditions and its influence on vibrations and noise in multi-component drivetrains.
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Outreach
Events & News
3 June, 2019 - The CONTACTLUB project will officially start on September 1st, 2019.
3 October, 2019 - Scientific Kick-off Meeting for CONTACTLUB
4 February, 2020 - Industrial Advisory Board Kick-off Meeting for CONTACTLUB.
18 March, 2020 - Scientific Board Meeting
15 September, 2020 - Scientific Board Meeting & Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
8 December, 2020 - Scientific Board Meeting
16 March, 2021 - Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
18 April, 2021 - Online Workshop on “Modern mechanical drivetrain modelling” by UGent (Dieter Fauconnier) and KULeuven (Bart Blockmans)
24 September, 2021 - Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
28 April, 2022 - Symposium: Tribology of the Low Countries
13 November, 2022 - Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
13 November, 2022 - Workshop on “Photonic sensors for asset monitoring” by VUB (Francis Berghmans)
Outreach
Publications & Media
Journal Publications
1. N. Delaissé, T. Demeester, D. Fauconnier, J. Degroote, Surrogate-based acceleration of quasi-Newton techniques for fluid-structure interaction simulations, Computers & Structures 260 (2022) 106720. doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2021.106720.
2. N. Delaissé, T. Demeester, R. Haelterman, J. Degroote. Quasi-Newton methods for partitioned simulation of fluid-structure interaction reviewed in the generalized Broyden framework, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-023-09907-y
3. P. Havaej, J. Degroote, D. Fauconnier, A quantitative analysis of double-sided surface waviness on TEHL line contacts, international tribology journal, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2023.108389
4. Jordan, J.M.I, Blockmans, B., Desmet, W. (2023) A linear formulation for misaligned helical gear contact analysis using analytical contact stiffnesses, Mechanism and Machine Theory journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2023.105373
5. Havaej, P.; Degroote, J.; Fauconnier, D. Sensitivity of TEHL Simulations to the Use of Different Models for the Constitutive Behaviour of Lubricants. Lubricants 2023, 11, 151. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants11030151
Conference Contributions
1. N. Delaissé, T. Demeester, D. Fauconnier, J. Degroote. Comparison of different quasi-Newton techniques for coupling of black box solvers, in: 14th WCCM & ECCOMAS Congress 2020, Proceedings, Paris, France, 2021. doi:10.23967/wccm-eccomas.2020.088.
2. N. Delaissé, P. Havaej, D. Fauconnier, J. Degroote. Accelerating the simulation of elastohydrodynamic lubrication in a line contact using a surrogate model, in: ECCOMAS Congress 2022, Proceedings, Oslo, Norway, 2022. doi:10.23967/eccomas.2022.036.
3. P. Havaej, J. Degroote, D. Fauconnier, CFD-FSI analysis of two-dimensional Thermo-Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication contacts, 9th OpenFOAM Conference, Germany, 2021.
4. P. Havaej, J. Degroote, D. Fauconnier, Thermal modelling strategies for TEHL of line contacts using CFD-FSI, WTC conference, Lyon France, 2022.
5. P. Havaej, J. Degroote, D. Fauconnier, A numerical investigation of surface waviness effects on TEHL in line contacts, NordTrib, Norway, 2022.
6. Manjunath Manjunath, W.Ost, D.Fauconnier, P. De Baets “Experimental Analysis of Recirculating Lubrication and Jet Lubrication on Tapered Roller Bearings” WTC Lyon France 2022.
7. Marco I Jordan, J., Blockmans, B., & Desmet, W. (2022, August). Analytical Lumped-Parameter Model of Misaligned Gear Contacts for Efficient System Level Drivetrain Simulations. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 86205, p. V001T01A013). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
8. Neeckx, B. Blockmans, W. Rottiers, W. Desmet. Multi-physical modelling and analysis of lubricated transmissions using a coupled finite element approach, in: ECCOMAS Congress 2022 - 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Proceedings, Oslo, Norway, 2022. doi: 10.23967/eccomas.2022.189
9. S. Neeckx, B. Blockmans, W. Rottiers, F. Naets, W. Desmet. Model order reduction in service of thermo-elastic coupled gear pairs, in MORSS2020, 2020.