Papers

2020-Present

• “Design of Oil and Air Squeeze Film Dampers For a Ball Bearing Turbocharger,”
  Edgar J. Gunter, 2023.
  Topics: Turbochargers
• “Failure Analysis of 2 Liter 4 Cylinder Engine Turbochargers,”
  Edgar J. Gunter, 2020.
  Topics: Bearings, Critical Speeds, Turbochargers, Whirl Motion
• “Review and Failure Analysis of Three 4 Cylinder Engine Turbochargers,”
  Edgar J. Gunter, 2020.
  Topics: Turbochargers

2010-2019

• “Effects of Radial Aerodynamic Forces on Rotor-bearing Dynamics of High-speed Turbochargers,”
  A. Alsaeed, R. Gordon Kirk & Salem Bashmal, 2014.
  Topics: Bearings, Compressors, Stability, Turbochargers
• “Induced Unbalance as a Method for Improving the Dynamic Stability of High-Speed Turbochargers,”
  R. Gordon Kirk & Ali A. Alsaeed, 2011.
  Topics: Turbochargers
• “Dynamic Stability and Whirl Motion of Large Diesel Engine Turbochargers in Floating Bush and Multi-Lobed Bearings,”
  E. J. Gunter & W. J. Chen, 2010.
  Topics: Bearings, Stability, Turbochargers, Whirl Motion

2000-2009

• “Improving the Reliability of Large Diesel Engine Turbochargers,”
  E. J. Gunter & Wen Jeng Chen, 2008.
  Topics: Turbochargers
• “High Speed Turbocharger Instability,”
  R. Gordon Kirk, Alan A. Kornhauser, John Sterling & Ali Alsaeed, 2007.
  Topics: Turbochargers
• “Stability Analysis of a High Speed Automotive Turbocharger,”
  R. G. Kirk, A. A. Alsaeed & E. J. Gunter, 2006.
  Topics: Stability, Turbochargers
• “Dynamic Analysis of a Turbocharger in Floating Bushing Bearings,”
  E. J. Gunter & W. J. Chen, 2005.
  Topics: Stability, Turbochargers

Before 2000

• “Selection and Design of Tilting Pad and Fixed Lobe Journal Bearings for Optimum Turborotor Dynamics,”
  J. C. Nicholas & R. G. Kirk, 1979.
  Topics: Bearings, Turbochargers