The geometry of the scroll compressor

DOI10.1137/S0036144599362121MaRDI QIDQ2706427zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Gravesen, Christian Henriksen

Publication date 19 March 2001

Published in SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036144599362121

zbMATH Keywords

intrinsic equationplanar curvescroll compressortangent direction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Differential geometric aspects in kinematics (53A17)

Review text

A scroll compressor is a machine for compressing air or refrigerant. The paper deals with the design of the boundary curves of the compression chambers of such a machine. The authors start from the intrinsic equation of one of the boundary curves. This equation links the arc-length \(s\) and the radius \(\rho\) of curvature of this curve \({\mathbf x}\). To ensure that the curve is a spiral without self-intersections the authors presume that \(\rho\) is a positive and increasing function of the tangent angle \(\phi\) (this is the angle between an arbitrarily chosen \(x\)-axis and the tangent of the curve). Then \({\mathbf x}\) is translated along a circular orbit which gives a family \({\mathbf x}_t\) of curves. The mating curve \({\mathbf y}\) is constructed as envelope of the family \({\mathbf x}_t\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEA corresponding mating pair \((\widetilde{\mathbf x}, \widetilde{\mathbf y})\) of curves is constructed by reflecting the first mating pair \(({\mathbf x}, {\mathbf y})\) in a suitably chosen point \(C\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe volume of the compression chambers and the total compression is computed. Additionally the authors discuss an optimization process for maximizing the choke volume of the compressor.

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