Direct Monte Carlo simulations of air bearing characteristics on patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2660-2663

  Myo, Kyaw Sett ^a   Zhou, Weidong ^a   Yu, Shengkai ^a   Hua, Wei ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Air bearing; direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC); head disk interface; magnetic recording; patterned media

Indexed keywords

GAS BEARINGS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; TEXTILE PRINTING;

AIR BEARING; BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA (BPM); DIRECT MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; MODIFIED REYNOLDS EQUATION; PATTERNED MEDIAS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 80053516087     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2159965     Document Type: Article

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