Modeling and Simulation of the Interaction Between Lubricant Droplets on the Slider Surface and Air Flow within the Head/Disk Interface of Disk Drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2480-2482

  Wu, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing; disk drives; head disk interface; interaction; lubricant flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008057993     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.880471     Document Type: Article

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