Stability of rotor systems: A complex modelling approach

DOI10.1007/S000000050113MaRDI QIDQ1266917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfhard Kliem, Christian Pommer, Jakob Stoustrup

Publication date 18 May 1999

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/4c0d3b60-0020-11da-b4d5-000ea68e967b

zbMATH Keywords

Laval rotorLyapunov matrix equationRayleigh quotientsrotor systemsRouth-Hurwitz criterionstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrix equations and identities (15A24) Linear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A30) Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D20)

Review text

The dynamics of a large class of rotor systems can be modelled by a linearized complex matrix differential equation of second-order, \[ M\ddot z+ (D+ iG)\dot z+ (K+ iN)z= 0, \] where the system matrices \(M\), \(D\), \(G\), \(K\) and \(N\) are real symmetric. Moreover, \(M\) and \(K\) are assumed to be positive definite and \(D\), \(G\), and \(N\) to be positive semidefinite. The complex setting is equivalent to a system twice as large of second-order with real matrices. It is well-known that rotor systems can exhibit instability for large angular velocities due to internal dumping, unsymmetrical steam flow in turbines, or imperfect lubrication in the rotor bearings. Theoretically, all information on the stability of the system can be obtained by applying the Routh-Hurwitz criterion. From a practical point of view, it is interesting to find stability criteria which are related in a simple way to properties of the system matrices in order to describe the effect of parameters on stability. In this paper, the Lyapunov matrix equation in a complex setting is applied to an equivalent system of first order and in this way two new stability results are derived. The usefulness of these results is compared with the more classical approach applying bounds of appropriate Rayleigh quotients. The rotor systems tested are: a simple Laval rotor, a Laval rotor with additional elasticity and damping in the bearings and a number of rotor systems with complex symmetric \(4\times 4\) randomly generated matrices.

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