Schedule: Monday

1
Welcome to the 22nd Annual ROMAC Conference
San Diego, Humphreys Half Moon Inn June 9 - 12,
2002
2
Schedule Monday

• Bearings and Seals I
• High Speed Static and Dynamic Testing of Tilt Pad
  Brgs
• Bearing Metal Temperature Correlation Study
• Load Direction Effects in Tilt Pad Bearings
• Advances in Flourescence Thermometry for Moving
  Surf.
• Flows I
• Component Matching Analysis for a Power
  Generation Gas Turbine
• Tutorial on Flow Instabilities in Centrifugal
  Compressors

• Welcome and Overviews
• Solar Welcome
• Welcome, Overview
• Bearings and Seals
• Fluid Flows
• Magnetic Bearings
• Rotordynamics
• Lab Resources and Needs
• Software Overview

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Schedule Tuesday

• Magnetic Bearings I
• Auxiliary Bearings Challenges
• Integrated Power Unit Magnetic Bearings
• ISO Magnetic Bearing Standards
• Rotordynamics I
• Epicyclic Gearbox Instability
• Axial Vibration in Turbo Compressors
• ROMAC Stability Test Rig

• Bearings and Seals II
• Elastohydrodynamic analysis of journal bearings
• TEHD Modeling of LEG MAXBRG
• TEHD Modeling with starvation
• Energy Transfer in Rotating Machinery
• Flows II
• Flow in Artificial Hearts
• Thermoacoustic Instability
• Compressor Test Facility

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Schedule Wednesday

• Rotordynamics II
• SVD in Rotordynamics
• Rotor Balancing using Min-Max and other methods
• Model Reconciliation and Estimation Uncertainty
• API 617 as a mu-analysis problem
• Future Research and Discussion
• Summary Results

• Bearings and Seals III
• Upgrading Pillow Block Bearings to TPJs
• Labyrinth Seal Modeling
• THRUST updates
• Tilt Pad Bearing Pivot Flexibility Effects
• Updates to MAXBRG
• Magnetic Bearings II
• Magnetic Losses in Rotating Magnetic Bearing
  Journals

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Wednesday, continued

• Magnetic Bearings II (continued)
• Mu-Synthesis Control Design for Magnetic Bearings
  in High Speed Rotors
• Power Loss Reduction by Optimizing Current
  Allocation in Magnetic Bearings
• Dynamics of Non-Laminated Magnetic Bearings
• Control of Machining Chatter via Magnetic
  Bearings