Wall shape effects on airflow characteristics in hard disk drive enclosures

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 511-521

  Ali, Shidrati ^a   Damodaran, M ^a   Ng, Quock Y ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Design engineering; Hard disks

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WALL FLOW;

AIRFLOW; DESIGN ENGINEERING; HARD DISK DRIVE; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; WALL SHAPE EFFECTS;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; HARD DISK STORAGE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WALL FLOW;

EID: 33845998222     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2006.011323     Document Type: Article

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