Arnau Català successfully defended his master's thesis.
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Arnau Català successfully defended his master’s thesis “Numerical modeling of gas-lubricated foil bearings: Gümbel condition validation with a bi-linear stiffness and simple coupling on the foil structure”. As an exchange student at LAMD, the defense took place at his home university (Technical University of Denmark).
During his master’s thesis, Arnau worked on the development of a non-linear transient numerical model for the dynamics of gas-lubricated foil bearings (GFBs), successfully reproducing some of the results of current state-of-the-art models for both single- and multi-pad GFBs. He also presented a simplified model to capture coupling on the foil structure, which allowed to predict the lift-off of the top foil and provide a validation of the commonly applied Gümbel condition under different operating conditions. We congratulate him on his master’s degree and welcome him as a PhD student at LAMD.