Greetings,

I have modeled a faulty system (Bowed rotor) in MATLAB. By increasing the sampling frequency, a frequency component appeared in the FFT graph (after the 1X), but the location (frequency in which the component appeared) is constant, i.e., by changing the system's angular velocity, the coordinate of the X-axis (frequency) is constant and does not show a harmonic component (such as 2X or 3X) while the fault has been modeled as a harmonic force. On the other hand, by increasing defect severity the amplitude of this harmonic component has been raised. Now, does anybody know and could explain it physically, please.

Yours sincere,