Analytical and numerical solutions for the thermal problem in a friction clutch system
Sabri L.A. Topczewska K. Jweeg M.J. Abdullah O.I. Abed A.M.
November 2021MDPI
Computation
2021#9Issue 11
The dry friction clutch is an important part in vehicles, which has more than one function, but the most important function is to connect and disconnect the engine (driving part) with driven parts. This work presents a developed numerical solution applying a finite element technique in order to obtain results with high precision. A new three-dimensional model of a single-disc clutch operating in dry conditions was built from scratch. As the new model represents the real friction clutch including all details, the complexity in the geometry of the clutch is considered one of the difficulties that the researchers faced using the numerical solution. The thermal behaviour of the friction clutch during the slip phase was studied. Meanwhile, in the second part of this work, the transient thermal equations were derived from scratch to find the analytical solution for the thermal problem of a clutch disc in order to verify the numerical results. It was found, after comparison of the numerical results with analytical results, that the results of the numerical model are very accurate and the difference between them does not exceed 1%.
Analytical solution , FE solution , Friction clutches , Transient thermal problem
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Department of Mechatronics, Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering, Baghdad, 10003, Iraq
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, Bialystok, 15-351, Poland
College of Technical Engineering, Al-Farahidi University, Baghdad, 10005, Iraq
Department of Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, 10003, Iraq
Department of Mechanics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
System Technologies and Engineering Design Methodology, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, 21073, Germany
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Techniques Engineering Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Hillah, 51001, Iraq
Department of Mechatronics
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
College of Technical Engineering
Department of Energy Engineering
Department of Mechanics
System Technologies and Engineering Design Methodology
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Techniques Engineering Department
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