A gas lubrication equation for high knudsen number flows and striated rough surfaces

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-9

  White, James ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing interface; Data storage; High Knudsen number; Lubrication equation; Rough surface

Indexed keywords

AIR BEARING DESIGN; AIR BEARING INTERFACE; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DISK DATA; DYNAMIC EVENTS; FULLY-COUPLED; GAS LUBRICATION; HARD DISK DRIVE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; KNUDSEN NUMBERS; LENGTH SCALE; LUBRICATION EQUATION; MULTIPLE-SCALE ANALYSIS; NON-ITERATIVE; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POISEUILLE FLOW; POISEUILLE FLOW RATE; RECORDING HEAD; ROTATIONAL TRANSFORMATION; ROUGH SURFACES; SECOND ORDERS; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SLIDER-DISK INTERFACES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; TIME-ACCURATE; TIME-DEPENDENT;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HARD DISK STORAGE; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE INTERFACES; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; STATISTICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIR LUBRICATION;

EID: 77955259868     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001023     Document Type: Article

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