Magnetic head - Rigid disk interface hydrodynamically lubricated with a power-law fluid

Wear

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 47-53

  Elsharkawy, Abdallah A ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Finite difference methods; Hydrodynamic lubrication; Non Newtonian fluids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; SHEAR THINNING;

LUBRICATION;

EID: 0043139078     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(97)00179-8     Document Type: Article

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