Chaotic Behaviour Investigation of a Front Opposed-Hemispherical Spiral-Grooved Air Bearing System

Figure 11

Maximum Lyapunov exponents of the rotor centre with respect to different bearing number = (a) 2.3, (b) 3.12, (c) 3.84, (d) 3.86, (e) 4.55, and (f) 4.89.

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