Compared with conventional orifice air bearing,porous aerostatic bearings possess many advantages such as higher load capacity,better stability and manufacturing convenience.The effect of the key factors such as eccentricity,porous material permeability,bearing aspect ratio and average film thickness on the static performance of porous aerostatic bearings were analyzed with the commercial software Fluent which was based on finite volume method.The analysis results show that,there is an optimum permeability interval which can make the load capacity maximum under a certain average film thickness.The load capacity and stiffness of the porous air journal bearing can be improved by increasing the bearing aspect ratio and reducing the average film thickness.However,the parameters need to be carefully chosen by taking the requirements of manufacture,assembly and working condition into consideration.New form of centrally air supply porous journal bearing was designed and fabricated,the pressure distribution of gas film was obtained and load capacity was calculated.The validity of simulation results was verified by static performance experiment.The results of simulation and experiment indicate that the porous journal bearing with this structural form has excellent performance.