Aerodynamic vibration mechanism of HDD arms predicted by unsteady numerical simulations

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2201-2203

  Kubotera, Hiroyuki ^a   Tsuda, Naozumi ^a   Tatewaki, Masayuki ^a   Maruyama, Tsugito ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airflow; Arm; Computational fluid dynamics; Hard disk drive; K rm n vortex

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARD DISK STORAGE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); VORTEX FLOW;

AIRFLOW;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036762316     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.801866     Document Type: Article

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