A Comparison of the Genetic Algorithm and the Subregion Approach in the Optimization of Slider Air Bearings for Sub-7-nm Flying Height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2432-2434

  Zhang, J ^a   Hanke, A V ^a,b   Talke, F E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air bearings; Genetic algorithms; Optimization; Subregion approach

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

MAGNETIC RECORDING SLIDERS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0141884997     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816428     Document Type: Article

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