Gear Pumps and Motors

Dear Colleagues,

Positive displacement pumps and motors are key components and play a relevant role in determining the efficiency of fluid power systems. Especially nowadays, when the typical low efficiency levels of fluid power systems are under severe analysis and critics, the attention and interest of researchers of the field is particularly high and especially devoted to identify designs, materials and technologies able to improve the efficiency of positive displacement pumps and motors. While a lot of work has been devoted to some architectures of these machines, such as the swashplate axial piston pumps, gear pumps and motors have been studied with minor continuity and interest.

However, gear pumps and motors are extensively used in fluid power applications because of the many positive aspects related to them: depending on the different architectures, they can be characterized by robustness, low cost, ability to work with contaminated fluid, more or less quietness.

This Special Issue will collect works from authors all around the world that have dedicated their studies to gear pumps and motors, with the aim of publish and disseminate research approaches and results regarding the study of gear pumps and motors.

The contributions may be focused on one or more of the following topics:

 -modelling and simulation of the pumps and motors operation, alone or as a part of a system

 -experimental characterizations

 -new materials and new manufacturing technologies

 -operation with eco-fluids

 -optimization of the design

 -cavitation analysis

 -lubrication modelling and efficiency consideration

 -analysis of systems and applications in which the role of the gear pump or motor is a key role

 -noise and vibration

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