Unstructured triangular mesh generation techniques and a finite volume numerical scheme for slider air bearing simulation with complex shaped rails

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2421-2423

  Wu, L ^a   Bogy, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing simulation; Delaunay method; Finite volume scheme; Mesh refinement and adaptation; Non nested multi grid technique

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

DELAUNAY METHOD; SLIDERS; TRIANGULAR MESH GENERATION;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033184371     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800845     Document Type: Article

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