THE RESEARCH OF STABILITY OF STATIONARY ROTATION A ROTOR SYSTEM WITH A LIQUID, THE AXLE OF WHICH IS LOCATED IN ANISOTROPIC FIXINGS

Abstract

Earlier, one of the authors proposed and developed (together with coworkers) an original method to study the stability of stationary rotation of rotary systems containing a viscous liquid and having a drive that maintains the angular velocity of rotation constant. It was assumed that the rotor has axial symmetry, the anchors of its axis are isotropic. The method is based on two theorems, according to which a change in the degree of instability is associated with the possibility of a perturbed motion of the circular precession type. This motion has a remarkable property: the velocity field and the shape of the liquid surface do not depend on time in a specially selected non-inertial reference frame associated with the line of centers. Finding the conditions for the feasibility of circular precession makes it possible to effectively construct the boundaries of the stability regions of the stationary rotation regime in the space of problem parameters. In addition, the study of the occurrence of circular precession allows us to find the conditions under which a subcritical (supercritical) Andronov-Hopf bifurcation takes place in the rotor system and to identify "dangerous" (“safe”) sections of the boundaries of the stability regions. In this paper, the previously proposed method of stability research applies to systems in which the rotor axis is located in anisotropic Laval type anchors. In the study of rotary systems of this type, it is possible to link the change in the degree of instability with the feasibility of perturbed movements of the elliptical precession type. It can be shown that the imaginary characteristic numbers of the equations in deviations from the stationary rotation mode are possible only in the case when there is a perturbed motion in the form of an elliptical precession. An example of a study of the stability of stationary rotation of a typical rotary system is given. Mechanical effects caused by the fact that gyroscopic stabilization becomes impossible with anisotropic fixing of the rotor axis are noted.