抄録
The opening delay of a discharge reed valve for compressors caused by the oil film in the clearance between the reed and the valve seat is investigated. The developed simulation method which couples the reed deformation, the gas flow and the oil film flow is applied to simulate delay times on two types of seats with different contact areas. Three models for cavitaion in the oil film are tested; no-cavitation model, the static cavitation model (Reynolds' condition), and the dynamic cavitaton model in which the bubble expansion is directly simulated. The calculaion through the dynamic cavitation model reproduces well experimental results with regard to the delay time and oil film behaviors of cavitation and blow-by (oil film rupture). The result also shows that the growth of cavitation bubbles occupies the change in the oil film volume and prevents the oil film pressure from falling. The rupture mechanism based on the calculation results is that the increase of the oil film thickness directly causes the oil film pressure recovery leading to the blow-by flow, and both cavitation and the smaller contact area promote the growth of the oil film thickness.
