Flywheel Definition and 255 Threads

Hello all. This is my first post here. I have an idea for a battle bot design and I'd like a reality check on it's theoretical operating principles. Forget the design/engineering aspect for now. I'm aware there will be some major hurdles there! But does the physics check out? See the attached...

2.00" of Stroke and 300 strokes per minute.

Assume the top image to be the simple version of the wheel configuration and the lower one to be the proposed way of wheel arrangement. In the newer version i want to use a heavy metal plate of approx 200gms and a wheel of 50gm instead of a heavy 200gm wheels due to sourcing issues. This is...

Hey , I’m participating in a sailboat race that forbids gas or electric engines. Paddles and oars are popular with smaller boats while racers over 25 feet rely on peddle drives. As we are poor substitutes for engines these devices work but not very well ! My thought is to add a flywheel, as...

I am stuck on what to do to calculate the inertia of a flywheel using the method described. I am supposed to use conservation of energy equations to calculate the inertia. I have a picture of the experiment and also the measurements I have taken. It seems each method I try I get a different...

For a model, I am making I need to know the friction between a motor and a flywheel. The electric motor is on the side of the flywheel and the idea is when this motor turns the flywheel will start to rotate due to the friction between them. I however can not find a good way to calculate this...

I'm wonder how one could calculate the total mega pascals total mega pascals that can be applied to a spinning flywheel before it exceeds its tensile strength example: a cast iron flywheel is spinning at 10,000rpm(Tangential velocity = 104.72) it has a radius of 100mm and a weight of 500g...

I am trying to build a simulation of a car engine and wheels for a game project. My model is currently this: Engine outputs a torque -> this spins up a flywheel over time (the physics step of 1/60s) -> the flywheel is coupled with the clutch and thus transmission -> the transmission multiplies...

Can someone point me to advanced engineering/ physics based literature / textbooks on the subject?

Hi guys! I have a real life physical problem. I need to calculate the mass and diameter of a flywheel made of steel to run generator with parameters: 123 kVA - 98 kWe; Frequency 50 Hz, 400 V, Class F M8 - 674 nM. The better question is, how much (kinetic) energy do I have to input into the...

How did you find PF?: Trying to find answers Hi I’m trying to solve this problem .hope someone can find the answers, I need to find the hp needed to run a flying wheel ring shape. 42 ft in diameter weight 200.000 lbs the wheel is Suport by bearing inside and out of the edge of the rim, the...

Hey everyone, I have a problem with sizing a clutch for my machine. My problem is, I don't know how to calculate the needed value (Nm) for the clutch to withstand the torque affected by the flywheel. I have a flywheel that weighs 90kg and is 600mm in diameter. It is rotating at 500rpm...

i'm simulating a small dc motor that is driven by volt = 1.54v, current = 250 milli amps, so that gives me 0.385 watts supplied to the motor next i attached a 4mm thick circular acrylic disc as a flywheel. so in this simulation i spin up the acrylic disc as a flywheel my acrylic disc is 12cm...

I have solved part a using the conservation of energy, getting a (correct) answer of 47.9 km/h, but I am unable to make headway with part b. Based on the flywheel rotating at 237rev/s when the car is moving at 86.5 km/h, I obtained omega = (237*2pi)v/24=62v. Differentiating both sides should...

Hello, I made this account to ask this question that I’ve been loosing sleep over. My question is say you have 2 identical motorcycles the engine the exact same and everything the only difference is the mass of the flywheel one bikes engine has a flywheel twice the mass as the other will the...

Hi there I have been having a go at this question and I'm uncertain if my answer to part b) is valid? The problem is when I plug this into the calculator I get 6.379... revs however this doesn't make sense to me. 2*pi is roughly 6.28 radians so doing 4.061... rads / 6.28 rads = 0.647 revs...

Hey everyone! Was trying to answer this question and was wondering if this was the right way to go about it? Any help would be really appreciated!

I converted 5 minutes to 300 seconds, and movement angle per second as shown on the picture. From here on I am lost, as the angular velocity can't be calculated, as the time given isn't the one in which the flywheel does one rotation. I apologise if I used any expressions wrong, english is not...

I have a flywheel (150 Kg, Diameter-18", RPM) How I Calculate Horsepower from These information. I am working on a project Thank you physicsforums

Summary: Consider a train carriage rolling along a curve that forms a left turn on the track. The carriage speed is directed along the y-axis (into the plane of the paper) in the figure. The trolley will have a tendency to curl in the curve in the specified direction. A flywheel is inserted...

Figure 1 shows the Turning Moment diagram of Single Cylinder four stroke Engine. Can anyone tell me, how the turning moment becomes positive at the end of suction and exhaust stroke. Net force F = Force due to gas pressure - Inertia Force - Reaction Force due to friction If the net force...

hi sir i have 1100 watt motor and i want to rotat the fly wheel from rest to 1450 rpm.i want to know how big should be the flywheel to rotate at the motor 1100 watt and to get extra energy 700 joule or more than if possiable best regard thnx

What would happen if flywheel is not installed to IC Engine? Does it have serious consequences?

I have drone motor with propellers attached to the top of ring flywheels rim at the edge and the flywheel is 18 inches in diameter and weigh's 2kg. The drone motor with propellers rpm 5200 and thrust 900 grams. What rpm will the flywheel be rotating at.

Hello Team, Had a shower thought, and thought I spend a few minutes online with people much smarter than I to throw an idea at... So, I have a light weight truck. Say a little dodge dakota pickup that weighs +/- 3000lbs. I want to take out the motor and replace it with a little baby 20hp...

I was going through these two documents: https://www.schaeffler.com/remotemedien/media/_shared_media/08_media_library/01_publications/schaeffler_2/symposia_1/downloads_11/4_DMFW_1.pdf http://www.partinfo.co.uk/docs/140 My primary interest was to understand why and how Dual Mass Flywheel (DMF)...

I am working on a flywheel single-cylinder engine powered by a 40 psi air compressor. My task is to achieve as many RPMs as I can. I have already bored two exhaust ports in the frame as shown in the pictures attached. I've done some 600grit sanding on points of contact, am using lubricant prior...

Homework Statement Flywheels are large, massive wheels used to store energy. They can be spun up slowly, then the wheel's energy can be released quickly to accomplish a task that demands high power. An industrial flywheel has a 2.0 m diameter and a mass of 260 kg . Its maximum angular velocity...

Homework Statement A motor which drives a forming machine runs at an average angular velocity of 100−1. The machine forms steel shapes from flat sheet steel. The work done per operation is 7kJ. It takes one second to form each shape and four seconds to change over the next sheet of steel. If...

Hello,I have been searching for a good answer but I couldn't find any. Let's say a car's engine is producing 200 Nm of torque throughout its entire range.since gear ratios and tire radius are fixed,it must provide the same amount of wheel force in a gear.So,theoretically,whatever RPM you launch...

I'm currently working on combining energy storage systems like flywheels and batteries to balance consumption/regeneration. I've been looking at using an optimal control scheme so that a cost function can be tailored to our wishes. I'm curious about what other people in this field have been...

I am to try to find simple way to spin a spinning flywheel. What linear motion device acting on the outside edge of a spinning flywheel can be used to increase the speed of the flywheel. Need to use a repeating pattern such as pushing your hand down over and over on the edge of the wheel to...

How to calculate following input and output parameters- 1. Input at starter motor - Drive torque and power as shown below 2. Output at flywheel axle - torque, power, Kinetic energy, centrifugal force as shown below Input parameters: starter motor rpm -3600, Gear ratio- 18: 1 if any parameter...

Gentlemen: I got stuck in this problem and I really need your help: I have an hydraulic line of 23Mpa ( 3.300 psi) 10 gallon/min I built a flywheel weight 58,000 grams with the following Inertial properties Principal moments I1= 2.5 , and I2= 2.3 and I3= 632170437 grams mm3 Flywheel will...

I have a flywheel (not connected to an engine, just on a shaft and bearings, so assuming zero resistance), that weights 60 lbs, 18" wide, at 3200 RPM's. How can I calculate horsepower, brake, or torque? Working on a project, Thank you, Larry

Homework Statement gearbox and flywheel are as shown in FIGURE 4. The output shaft rotates in the opposite direction to the input shaft at 5 times its speed. The gearbox has an efficiency of 92%. If the flywheel is solid, has a mass of 50 kg, a diameter of 1.5 m and is to accelerate from rest...

Homework Statement A flywheel is attached on the output of the gearbox. The output shaft rotates in the opposite direction to the input shaft at 5 times its speed. The gearbox has an efficiency of 92%. If the flywheel is solid, has a mass of 50kg, a diameter of 1.5m and is to accelerate from...

Homework Statement A solid disk of diameter equal to 500 mm and a mass of 60 kg is to be used as a flywheel in an energy recovery device. Determine the torque required to accelerate the rotation of the flywheel, about its axis, from rest to 250 rpm in 6 revolutions. Homework Equations [/B]...

Dear friends, i want to know if flywheel (30inch) 96kg weight running on 1400rpm then how much power can save in hp or tarque? and how much power required to drive this wheel? regards kashif

Homework Statement [/B] Homework Equations I have calculated the kinetic energy and the total moment of inertia. https://www.physicsforums.com/file:///C:/Users/javad/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png The Attempt at a Solution I really don't know how to solve the problem...

Hi All, I'm hoping you all can help me with what I think should be some relatively simple calculations. I'm looking to determine how large (diameter / weight) of a flywheel a particular AC motor can spin from a stop to full RPM given the torque / HP of the motor. For instance, if I have a 1/3...

Homework Statement [/B] A flywheel with a D=1.2m is rotating at an angular speed of 200 rev/min (a) Whats the angular speed in rad/s ? (b)Whats v=? in the point on the rim ? (c)What const. ∝ ( in rev/min^2) will increase its angular speed to 1000 rev/min in 60 sec ? (d)How many...

Homework Statement A flywheel turns through 40 rev as it slows from an angular speed of 1.5 rad/s to a stop.Assuming a constant acceleration,find the tme for it to come to rest. Homework Equations ##w-w_0=∝t## The Attempt at a Solution In Δt secon the change in w...

Hi, I couldn't find how to calculate this flywheel inertia , any help please?! I know that I=1/2(mass*radius²) but it seams more complex then that!

I am working on a mechanism which controls the release of energy while remaining energy efficient. An image of the concept is shown below. (The image is meant simply to get an idea of how it would work- it is by no means perfect). A source of energy (from a spring being released, for example)...

Homework Statement Assume no friction for 1 - 6 1. Draw a free body diagram of the fly wheel (from above), and a free body diagram of the weight (from side). 2. What force appears in both diagrams? 3. What is the relationship between the torque on the flywheel and the tension in the string...

Had this idea today in my garage when I was setting up timing marks on the crankshafts and flexplate,the front engines flexplate would not be spinning the transmission.The flexplate is 14 inch diameter could you weld a series of fan blades to the flywheel face, get a modified bellhousing create...

How to calculate how much power required to turn a flywheel at constant velosity ? Suppose I have a flywheel of 24 inch diameter, width 5 inches,50kg and constant angular velosity is 1500 rpm. How do I calculate the required power (HP) to turn this or any other with different values?

For this problem, I don't understand how can the system be at rest and immediately after placing the mass, to move with constant speed. But anyways, can you tell me please how to proceed? On the hanging mass, there is mg acting and T the tension of the rope. On the flywheel, the tension of the...

Hello all, I am trying to remember (I did it in Uni) how to calculate the effective mean radius of an annulus that contains a pattern of holes on a PCD. Consider the following image (pinched from: https://www.solenoid-valves.com/ ): If one was to vary the value of PCD, then the effective...